24 Gardener's House, adapted for 



into two classes, the cascade and the jet: the cascade foun- 

 tain invariably falling from an unseen source above and the jet 

 fountain rising into the air from a source that is visible below. 

 These classes I should again divide into the natural, the simple 

 architectural, and the enriched. The taste of the projector 

 must adapt class and character to the situation, or, as those have 

 it who forget their mother tongue, to the locale : as, for instance, 

 bad taste might, perhaps, adopt the jet near a Swiss cottage, where 

 a natural cascade would be harmonious with the scene ; and, vice 

 versa, would, perhaps, adopt the natural cascade in a geometric 

 garden, and reject the jet, which would there be probably more 

 in keeping with the general features, particularly if made of the 

 enriched character. When such absurdities are put in juxta- 

 position with each other, the critic is apt to scout the idea of 

 treating such contradictions as chimerical; but the shade of 

 Repton is not wanted to be summoned up, to testify that the 

 remark is justified by every day's experience. 



Now, as to character: the natural speaks for itself, whether 

 cascade or jet : the one falling from rockwork above, and form- 

 ing rills below ; the other rising from a rockwork base, and falling 

 into a pool around or against it. 



The simple architectural has nothing in it but what geometry, 

 in the hands of a stone-mason, may execute ; while, on the con- 

 trary, the architectural enriched opens a wide field for genius 

 to display all its glorious riches by the hands of the sculptor. 



Having now briefly given all that perhaps may be said on the 

 methodical arrangement of fountains, I beg to send you in this 

 sheet a design for a natural cascade fountain and hermitage ; or, 

 according to the foregoing project, a fountain of Class I. character 

 1., and subscribe myself, till my next, Yours, &c. 



Necton, Norfolk, Nov. 1833. William Mason, Jun. 



We have not engraved the design sent, because there are 

 many such already published ; several will be found in the new 

 edition of our Encyclopaedia of Gardening, now publishing in parts. 

 For example, in Parti, fig. 20, and Part in. fig. 134. We shall 

 be glad of a continuation of Mr. Mason's communications. — Cond. 



Art. VII. Design for a Gardeners House, adapted for the South 

 Wall of a Kitchen-Garden, By J. Robertson, Esq. Architect. 



In conformity with our promise, made in Vol. VIII. p. 551., 

 we proceed with our designs for gardener's houses, suitable for 

 being joined to the walls of a kitchen-garden. We have already 

 given a design for an east wall (VIII. 551.), one for a west wall 

 (VIII. 659.), one for a north wall (IX. 477.), and we now give 

 one for a south wall. (fg. 2.) 



