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• Canal
  garden, canals could be straight, an idea promoted by treatise author Humphry Repton (1803), or they could meander, as at the Vale, in Waltham, Massachusetts
  32 KB (4,191 words) - 10:41, April 6, 2021
• Gate/Gateway
  often painted in colors contrasting with an adjacent wall or fence. As Humphry Repton noted, this treatment emphasized the principle entrance gate, assuring
  49 KB (6,655 words) - 15:28, August 13, 2021
• Clump
  Several treatise writers, however, condemned clumps. British designer Humphry Repton, while acknowledging that groups of trees were important elements in
  56 KB (7,984 words) - 14:42, March 25, 2021
• Pleasure ground/Pleasure garden
  accessible from prominent rooms of the house. British landscape designer Humphry Repton occasionally described the pleasure ground as “dressed,” which underscores
  58 KB (7,874 words) - 14:42, March 10, 2021
• Wood/Woods
  light effect while maintaining much of its mass and desired grandeur. Humphry Repton (1803) concurred when he cautioned against a strict contrast between
  58 KB (8,455 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
• Fence
  See also: Espalier, Gate, Ha-Ha, Hedge, Wall Humphry Repton wrote in 1803 in reference to England that “every county has its peculiar mode of fencing,
  105 KB (14,451 words) - 18:17, September 3, 2021
• Seat
  Antoine-Joseph Dezallier D’Argenville, Isaac Ware, William Marshall, Humphry Repton, and John Abercrombie) focused on seats as places of rest, terminations
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• Copse
  contrast, contained towering trees (see also Charles Marshall [1799] and Humphry Repton [1803]). Nicol drew further distinctions between natural (or self-sown)
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• J. C. (John Claudius) Loudon
  of Gardening (1826), 1012, fig. 700. J. C. Loudon, Aviary designed by Humphry Repton for the grounds of the Pavilion at Brighton, in An Encyclopaedia of
  35 KB (4,313 words) - 14:41, September 21, 2021
• Aviary/Bird cage/Birdhouse
  Springland, before 1805. J. C. (John Claudius) Loudon, Aviary designed by Humphry Repton for the grounds of the Pavilion at Brighton, in An Encyclopædia of Gardening
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• Lake
  Bodies of water not only sustained fish for sport and food, but, as Humphry Repton (1803) advised, they also attracted waterfowl and other animals and
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• Arch
  This Arch may be built in a good Manner for about 470 l.” [Fig. 11] Repton, Humphry, 1803, Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
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• Drive
  century, although Repton himself does not appear to have used the term “drive” to refer to a road. See Daniels, “On the Road with Humphry Repton,” Journal of
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• Lawn
  with the “clean unbroken line.” Promoted by British writers, such as Humphry Repton (1803) and J. C. Loudon (1826), and by American writers, such as Thomas
  108 KB (14,954 words) - 15:38, August 13, 2021
• Pavilion
  n.s. [pavillion, French.] A tent; a temporary or moveable house.” Repton, Humphry, 1803, Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
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• Thicket
  a “Garden Olitory,” c. 1804. The spiral diagram indicates a thicket. Humphry Repton, Sketch of Planting Clumps, in Observations on the Theory and Practice
  31 KB (4,281 words) - 17:44, February 3, 2021
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe
  than 1,500 books. Latrobe claimed a “very intimate” friendship with Humphry Repton and his son in the early 1790s, when the landscape architect was engaged
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• Bridge
  construction.’ Practical Treatise on Planting and Gardening p. 593 &c.” Repton, Humphry, 1803, Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
  36 KB (4,966 words) - 14:26, September 1, 2021
• Alexander Jackson Davis
  more practical books on landscape gardening, especially the work of Humphry Repton and Thomas Whately, of whose 1770 Observations on Modern Gardening Davis
  38 KB (4,757 words) - 20:03, September 8, 2021
• Ha-Ha/Sunk fence
  step that was made pointed out new beauties, and inspired new ideas.’” Repton, Humphry, 1803, Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
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