558 DAWN OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



sertations on Oriental Gardening," then recently published 



(1744). 



Before descending from situations to details of practice, 

 he remarks that " as nature has created a love in different 

 tempers for one or other of them, it would appear to be the 

 perfection of art to second these her operations." This 

 remark, however, is qualified by the admission that it may 

 sometimes be desirable to soften or temper instead of 

 heightening any sentiment not agreeable in itself. 



The author proceeds : " The objects, either natural or 

 artificial, which enter into the composition of a garden are 

 chiefly four buildings, grounds, water, and trees," to which 

 it may be said he might have very well added rocks. For 

 the first or highland situation he recommends the castle 

 with Gothic tower, with which the other buildings through 

 the garden should correspond, although there may be par- 

 ticular spots where the Doric or even the more rustic 

 Tuscan order would be proper to supply its place. If a 

 piece of water is to be made it should be a lake, not a pond. 

 " The rapidity and noise of the rivers should be increased 

 by artificial bulwarks and impediments, as is done at 

 Inverary, and the falls of water should, either by the inter- 

 position of rocks, or of new streams brought over them, be 

 made to look more like cataracts than cascades." If a 

 plantation is to be made it should consist of the great forest 

 trees, and they should be planted irregularly. " As there 

 should be a greatness in the quantity of the plantation, so 

 should there be a greatness in the view of particular trees." 

 The chief natural defect of a highland situation is con- 

 sidered to be that it is generally ill-inhabited, and has too 

 much the appearance of dead life, and to counteract this, 

 11 whatever buildings are erected should be in conspicuous 

 places to create a notion of life and populousness." It is 

 remarked " There is a fine gradation of inanimate objects 

 up almost into objects of life. A barren hill has a very 

 dead appearance ; covered with waving woods it has a 

 more animated show, but if a cascade is seen tumbling 



