European and Japanese Gardens 
beauty of f form, though requiring less fineness of execution 
than monuumental buildings deserve. The triviality of many 
of the minoor decorative figures and buildings of actual gardens 
in Italy in e execution and detail, is no doubt reprehensible, but 
less offensive than one would imagine, because of their charm¬ 
ing surrouundings and the obviousness of their role, not as 
works valuaable intrinsically, but as mere adjuncts and features 
in the geneeral scenic effect of the whole. 
Thirdhly, the treatment of water in the fountains, cascades 
and basins s of these gardens exemplifies sound principles cor¬ 
rectly applilied. A very small volume of water is made to pro¬ 
duce a maxximum of decorative effect, and the greatest possible 
variety of eeffects, by repeated interruptions and changes of its 
movement i from the reservoir above the upper terrace down to 
the last fouuntain basin in the flower-garden. Thrown up in 
small jets, i it is poured from basin to basin of the fountains, in 
very thin 1 but brilliant sheets or streams, to reappear, after 
“ ‘ A SMALL VOLUME OF WATER . . . BROKEN AGAIN AND AGAIN ” 
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