THE TREATMENT OF WATER — 59 
sight. It is seldom nowadays that we hear of water 
being treated in the lavish style of design which made 
Brown famous among his contemporaries. So far as the 
small property is concerned, the less of Art and the 
more of Nature we have, the better. In most cases, 
existing effects should be jealously preserved, the de- 
signer making it his business merely to amplify and 
elaborate these without destroying their individuality. 
Above all, the presence of water should be made the 
excuse for an aquatic garden, than which nothing gives 
greater interest and pleasure. Fountains and cascades are 
very well, but they are always alike and present from 
day to day the same prospect of rising or falling water. 
The water garden is ever fresh, ever new, its aspect 
undergoes constant alteration, owing to the growth and 
change of the plants it contains. Above all the reflected 
beauty of flower and branch, of cloud and summer sky, 
are never failing sources of attraction, bringing home 
to the most jaded mind some of the fairest and most 
subtle charms of the great world of Nature. 
