410 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



the pipe being concealed or disguised) the water issues 

 among the rocks either in the form of a cascade, a weep- 

 ing fountain, or a perpendicular jet. A little basin of 

 water is formed at the foot or in the midst of the rockwork 

 and the cool moist atmosphere afforded by the trickling 

 streams, would offer a most congenial site for aquatic 

 plants, ferns, and mosses. 



Fountains of a highly artificial character are happily 

 situated only when they are placed in the neighborhood of 

 buildings and architectural forms. When only a single 

 fountain can be maintained in a residence, the centre of 

 the flower-garden, or the neighborhood of the piazza oi 

 terrace-walk, is, we think, much the most appropriate 

 situation for it. There the liquid element, dancing and 

 sparkling in the sunshine, is an agreeable feature in the 

 scene, as viewed from the windows of the rooms ; and the 

 falling watery spray diffusing coolness around is no less 

 delightful in the surrounding stillness of a summer evening. 



After all that we have said respecting architectural and 

 rustic decorations of the grounds, we must admit that it 

 requires a great deal of good taste and judgment, to 

 introduce and distribute them so as to be in good keeping 

 with the scenery of country residences. A country resi- 

 dence, where the house with a few tasteful groups of 

 flowers and shrubs, and a pretty lawn, with clusters and 

 groups of luxuriant trees, are all in high keeping and 

 evincing high order, is far more beautiful and pleasing 

 than the same place, or even one of much larger extent, 

 where a profusion of statues, vases, and fountains, or 

 rockwork and rustic seats, are distributed throughout the 

 garden and grounds, while the latter, in themselves, show 



