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the andscape approaches that character which Andr6 

 calls "gay,"* nothing can be more appropriate than 

 the glancing, glimmering, vanishing, changing glimpses 

 of running water in a small brook. Such a brook should 

 be wooded, and among the trees should be loose tangles 

 of vines, shrubbery, brambles and brakes. Eocky imped- 

 iments in the bed of the brook, if the character of the 

 ground will justify them, give little, tinkhng cascades 

 where the sunlight flushes. Here and there a calmer 

 pool may grow some rushes or lily pads. And every 

 turn gives a change of view, and every change of view a 

 new delight. 



A good brook offers, indeed, a multitude of oppor- 

 tunities for delightful landscape gardening. It is unfor- 

 tunate that such opportunities are sometimes wholly 

 neglected. 



**'Le genre gai on riant. . . . s'appliqne gdn^ralement k des 

 scenes champetres, pastorales, doucement anim^es, vari«^es, qtii con- 

 stituent la grande majority des cadres dans lesqiiels le talent du des- 

 sinateur est appele a s'exercer."— Andre, L'Art des Jardins, 138. 



