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Book: An inquiry into the changes of taste in landscape gardening, 1806
Chapter: Part I. Historical Notices.

Regular curves

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Regular Curves.-Fashion, tired of the dull uniformity of straight lines, was then driven to adopt something new; yet, still acting by geometric rules, it was changed to regular forms of circles and curves, in which the trees were always planted at equal distances. This introduced, also, the serpentine avenue for a road.