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terraces, as at H addon, as he knows walls are good 

 friends in every way, both as backgrounds and shelters ; 

 but he is as happy in a lawn garden, in a rich valley soil, 

 on the banks of a river, on those gentle hill-slopes that 

 ask for no terraces, or in the hundreds of gardens in and 

 near towns and cities of Europe that are enclosed by 

 walls and where there is no room for landscape effect 

 (many of them distinctly beautiful too, as in Mr. Fox's 

 garden at Falmouth) ; as much at home in a Border 

 castle garden as in the lovely Penjerrick, like a glimpse 

 of a valley in some Pacific isle, or Mount Usher, cooled 

 by mountain streams. 



Waterworks garden design. The same architect turns 

 to the waterworks as his chief solace : 



But of all the fascinating sources of effect in garden-making 

 the most fascinating are waterworks. An expensive luxury 

 as a rule, but they well repay the expense. 



Well, there is some evidence of the sort of design 

 these afford ; some instances terrible in their ugliness 

 (one hideous at Bayreuth). And with all the care that 

 a rich State may take of them, can we say that the effect 

 at Versailles is artistic or delightful ? Water tumbling 

 into the blazing streets of Roman cities and nobly de- 

 signed fountains supplying the people with water was 

 right ; but in our cool land artificial fountains are very 

 different, and often a hideous extravagance. Of their 

 ugliness there is evidence in nearly every city in Europe, 

 including our own Trafalgar Square, rnd that fine (!) 

 work at the head of the Serpentine. We have also our 

 Crystal Palace and Chatsworth, designed as they might 

 be by a theatrical super who had suddenly inherited 

 a millionaire's fortune. What the effect of this is I need 

 hardly say, but with all our British toleration of ugliness 



