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must try to avoid appearances which indicate 

 too obviously the artificial character of the 

 work. For instance, a promontory formed at 

 a bend in the path should have a line more 

 nearly approaching the first than the second 

 figure in the accompanying illustration. 



Fig. 44. — Arrangements of rock masses 



An artist would instinctively produce good 

 contours; the less favoured individual must be 

 guided by these precepts, and by such examples 

 as he may find to imitate. 



Though I do not offer it as an inducement to 

 indifferent work, I may remark that Nature is 

 ever kind to her votaries, and when the garden 

 has been planted she will do her best to conceal 

 shortcomings. 



For bog plants it is well to arrange one or 

 more bays, in which the peat may lie in a level 

 surface, as peat is unstable on a slope. An 



