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chiefly glimpses, and are to be treated accordingly, — not 

 with the same dignity and seriousness which are given to 

 larger views, though in general the plan of treatment 

 will be a sort of miniature of that already described. 



Besides this, the small pond offers wonderful oppor- 

 tunities for planting. Sedges, cat-tails, lotuses, water 

 lilies, alders and many other plants are especially suitable 

 to the banks and shallow water of ponds. Very fine effects 

 can be arranged with them. The outline of a pond may 

 be tastefully broken, so that what would otherwise look 

 like a mere cup in the ground becomes a necessary and 

 integral part of tlie whole composition. The grass 

 should come down to the water in places. In other 

 parts a fringe of overhanging alders may form the out- 

 line. Still further along the sedges and cat-tails may 

 jut far out into the still water. It is hard to spoil such 

 a picture. 



If some of the trees along the pond shore are situ- 

 ated so as to cast their reflections upon the water, their 

 effect will be more than doubled. Everyone knows 

 what a pleasing touch such reflections give to a picture. 

 But the trees must not be of the unquiet sort, like some 

 of the willows, always shivering and shimmering in the 

 breeze, for the pond must be still and the images on its 

 surface must be still. It is the quietness and peaceful- 

 ness of such a picture which attract us, and we are very 

 sensitive of even the slightest interference. And yet 

 some of the statelier willows, especially the heavier weep- 

 ing willows, make excellent pond borders. Ash trees, 

 and sycamores with thorns, and viburnums, and many 

 more such things, enter helpfully into such effects. 



The small rivulet does not seem to enjoy the favor 

 which its comparative merits would justify. It cannot 

 become a part of the same sedate and serious pictures 

 which depend so much on large sheets of water ; but it 

 has an equal degree of efficiency in its own way. When 



