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Record 1 1992-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Landscape Architecture
CONT

In Europe and North America, water gardens range from formal pools with rectangular or circular outline, sometimes with fountains in the centre and often without plants or with just one or two water lilies (Nymphaea), to informal pools of irregular outline planted with water lilies and other water plants and surrounded by boggy or damp parts where moisture-tolerant plants can be grown.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture paysagère
OBS

Construction maçonnée des pièces d'eau. (...) Tracé du bassin. Reportons sur le terrain le plan du bassin en multipliant d'autant plus les piquets que sa forme est irrégulière. (...) Effectuons le terrassement (...) en respectant (...) la forme exacte du tracé, surtout si elle est irrégulière (...)

Spanish

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