150 WALL AND WATER GARDENS 



the treatment of this would depend on what was 

 below. If it was all pleasure ground, or if there 

 was a river or lake, the architectural refinements 

 would be continued, though not obtruded ; if it was 

 a kitchen garden it would be approached by perhaps 

 a simpler walled enclosure for Vines and Figs, the 

 paved walk passing between two green spaces, in 

 the centre of each of which would stand a Mulberry 

 tree. On the upper levelled spaces right and left the 

 formal feeling would merge into the free, for there 

 is no reason why the two should not be combined, 

 and on one level at least the green expanse should 

 be seen from end to end, the flagged path only 

 passing across it. And all the way down there would 

 be the living water, rippling, rushing, and falling. 

 Open channels in which it flowed with any con- 

 siderable fall would be built in little steps with falls 

 to oblige the water to make its rippling music, and 

 in the same way throughout the whole garden every 

 point would be studied, so as to lose sight of no 

 means, however trifling, of catching and guiding any 

 local matter or attribute, quality, or circumstance that 

 could possibly be turned to account for the increase 

 of the beauty and interest and delightfulness of the 

 garden. One small section I have ventured to de- 

 scribe and figure in detail, but only as a suggestion 

 of how much may be done with a limited number of 

 plants only. One wants to see one beautiful picture 

 at a time, not a muddle of means and material that 

 properly sorted and disposed might compose a dozen. 

 I do not say that it is easy ; on the contrary, it wants 



