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" All the Risings and Hills are sprinkled with Trees 

 and particularly with Flowering Trees which are here 

 very common. The sides of the Canals or lesser 

 Streams are not faced (as they are with us) with smooth 

 stone and in a straight Line ; but look rude and rustic 

 with different Pieces of Rock, some of which jut out, 

 and others recede inwards ; and are placed with so much 

 Art that you would take it to be the work of Nature. 

 In some Parts the Water is wide, in others narrow; 

 here it serpentizes and there spreads away, as if it were 

 really pushed away by the hills and Rocks. The Banks 

 are sprinkled with flowers, which rise up even through 

 the Hollows in the Rock work, as if they had been pro- 

 duced there naturally. They have a great variety of 

 them for every season in the year." 



Another treatise which produced a still more wide- chambers* 

 spread effect was Sir William Chambers' "Dissertations tumson 

 on Oriental Gardening." He advanced the proposition Gardening." 

 that the Chinese were not averse to straight lines, and 

 fully explained their methods of appealing to the emo- 

 tions. His writings are worth quoting more on account 

 of their far-reaching influence than as a literal descrip- 

 tion of Chinese gardening. In an introduction he 

 states that " The Chinese Gardeners take nature for 

 their pattern and their aim is to imitate all her beautiful 

 irregularities . . . yet they are not so attached to her 

 as to exclude all appearance of art. Art must supply 



