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seed is the most eligible for the principal spaces in very large 

 gardens. 



Water being so ornamental in all garden designs, no pains 

 should be spared to introduce it where possible ; but where it ad- 

 mits of a constant running stream, from some adjacent upper 

 spring, its beauties may be rendered admirably fine, as it may be 

 conducted in meanders through the plantation, so as to effect a beau- 

 tiful assemblage of verdure and water together ; and if it should be 

 continued to any considerable length, one or more ornamental 

 Chinese bridges, may be carried over it at convenient places, which 

 will have a beautiful effect, and serve for communication with the 

 opposite divisions, on each side of the rivulet. 



Cascades, and other water-falls, have also a fine effect, where 

 there is a constant plentiful stream, and the situation proper to 

 give the water a due fall, from a higher to a lower part, upon a 

 parcel of rugged stones, to increase the noise, and break and dis- 

 perse the water. 



In some grounds, by their natural situations, water may be ob- 

 tained at a moderate expense ; as sometimes a contiguous vale, or 

 meadow, bounded by rising ground, and with a brook or rivulet 

 constantly running through it, may be easily thrown into the most 

 agreeble form ; and sometimes large springs issuing from an upper 

 ground, and running down a moderate descent between two rising 

 grounds, to some vale below, may either form one entire lake, 

 &c. or be contrived, hy making proper heads at distances, to form 

 several lakes strung together, as it were, one above another, up to 

 the beginning of the spring; each head may form a beautiful water- 

 fall, or cascade ; having the rising grounds on each side embellished 

 with plantation clumps. 



Lakes and artificial rivers may also be contrived in a flat or level 

 ground, where there are any contiguous brooks that can be con- 

 ducted to supply them with water. 



All pieces of water should generally be contrived in a natural 

 imitation, as much as the situation will admit ; and its boundary on 

 all sides should be grass ground to some codsiderable width, sloped 

 off as easy as possible, corresponding with the other adjacent grass 

 ground, to admit of a prospect of the water at some distance. 



On the verges of large compartments of water, some Babylonian 

 or Weeping Willows, disposed in particular situations, singly at 

 distances, sometimes in concave and projecting parts, terminations, 

 fcc. will have a very agreeable effect in their long, bending, arched 

 branches, and numerous pendulous shoots, suspended over the 

 water, in a loose waving manner, sometimes sweeping the surface 

 thereof; and when arrived to some considerable growth in their 

 numerous low pendent branches, suspended all around, display an 

 air of peculiar solemn grandeur. 



The various compartments of ground intended for the different 

 plantations, should be digged or trenched for the reception of the 

 plants ; particularly for all plantations of shrubbery, and wilderness 

 quarters, flower compartments, &c. and the ground for clumps 

 should if not thought top expensive, be raised above the common 



