37 S PICTURESQUE IMPROVEMENT. BOOK I. 



snip, &c. suit a running stream and clear bottom : the typha, 

 bull-rush, &c. deep still water, with a rocky bottom : the hip- 

 puris, morsas rana, ziziana*, fresh water soldier, &c. suit shal- 

 low and still water; the water lily, alisma, Sec. a medium 

 between the shallow and deep. In nature, every collection of 

 water, as well as earth, has its peculiar plants, from the alga 

 in the sea, to the caltriche on the surface of the least pools. 

 Hence the propriety of imitating the beauties of nature in 

 these respects as well as in others. No one can dispute the su- 

 periority of this practice to the present total neglect of it, at 

 least none of my readers will, whose opinions are important 

 in works of taste. — 3. Those proper for wild scenery, where 

 cattle are admitted. I may observe here, in the first place, 

 that if goats abound in scenery, scarcely any plant will escape 

 their ravages, as they devour even the cicuta virosa ; but as 

 deer, horses, asses, horned cattle, and sheep, are the com- 

 mon inhabitants of park scenery, a considerable number of 

 plants may be fixed on, which they either never use, or eat 

 only in cases of great distress for want of more agreeable food. 

 Of those kinds which they never eat are, the beautiful tribe of 

 the ferns as well as arum, scandex odorata, digitalis, briar, sloe- 



* The effect of this valuable exotic in the lakes and stagnated waters at Braham 

 Castle passes description for singularity and beauty. It should be very generally 

 introduced in all lakes, as it may probably become as useful at some future period 

 in this country as it is now in America. — See the Linnsean Society's Transactions, 

 Vol. VII. p. 264. 



