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Book: A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America,1841
Chapter: Section IX. Landscape Or Rural Architecture

Irregular building outlines

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On the other hand, buildings of more irregular outline, in which appear bolder or ruder ornaments, and a certain free and more rustic air in finishing, are those which should be selected to accompany scenery of a wilder or more picturesque character, abounding in striking variations of surface, wood, and water. And these are the Castellated, the Tudor, and the old English in all its forms.