4K) 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 or 
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 j* 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 
