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both cases. The old practice would give the line 

 of the stream as illustrated in Plate VI, a ; the 

 student of Nature will try to make it something 

 like h. 



Frequently, larger and smaller promontories, 

 as well as deep bays tend to give the scene a 

 natural appearance, and it is equally effective to 

 vary the height and form of the crown or upper 

 part of the bank. One must be careful to avoid 

 high finish in constructing the slope of the bank 

 in such a way as to betray the artificial work. 



An exception to this may be made in the 

 case of the " pleasure-ground " ; but here also it 

 would be well to strike a middle course between 

 Nature and cultivation. (See Plate VI, c, for the 

 stiffs, and d, for the more natural, bare bank; 

 e, for the advantages of variety in the banks on 

 both sides.) The plantation supplies what is still 

 lacking and completes the whole by the free play 

 of the overhanging branches. It would hardly 

 be possible to give an entirely natural appearance 

 to an artificial bank without a plantation. 



If one would like a larger, more lakelike ex- 

 panse of water, which is especially desirable in 

 the view from the mansion, one should so treat 

 it — partly by means of islands, partly by very 

 deep bays, the limits of which are mostly con- 

 cealed in shrubbery — that from no one point 

 the whole mass of water can be overlooked, but 

 that everywhere, behind the thick shrubbery, the 

 water appears to flow onward; otherwise, every 

 piece of water will appear small, even though it 



