Decorative Arts: Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts: Chapter IV: Of planting for immediate and future effect--clumps--groups--masses--new mode for planting wastes and commons--the browsing line described--example Milton Abby--combination of masses to produce great woods--example Coombe Lodge--Character and shape of ground to be studied--outline of new plantations

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Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818 / Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening: including some remarks on Grecian and Gothic architecture, collected from various manuscripts, in the possession of the different noblemen and gentlemen, for whose use they were originally written; the whole tending to establish fixed principles in the respective arts
(1803)

Chapter IV: Of planting for immediate and future effect--clumps--groups--masses--new mode for planting wastes and commons--the browsing line described--example Milton Abby--combination of masses to produce great woods--example Coombe Lodge--Character and shape of ground to be studied--outline of new plantations, pp. 45-48

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