. An encyclopædia of gardening; . the greatest ornaments to lakes. But thatisland which is placed in the centre, or in any situation where it does not connect withother islands, or with the shore, so as to form part of a prominence or recess, is injuriousto the effect of the whole inversely as its beauty, when properly placed. 7223. Rivers and rills, we have said, are rather to be improved than created; for wecannot sympathise with that taste which directs the mimiciy of so noble a character as ariver, or is satisfied with a nearly stagnated rill. We do not consider the river at Blenheimas an
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . the greatest ornaments to lakes. But thatisland which is placed in the centre, or in any situation where it does not connect withother islands, or with the shore, so as to form part of a prominence or recess, is injuriousto the effect of the whole inversely as its beauty, when properly placed. 7223. Rivers and rills, we have said, are rather to be improved than created; for wecannot sympathise with that taste which directs the mimiciy of so noble a character as ariver, or is satisfied with a nearly stagnated rill. We do not consider the river at Blenheimas an exception, because that piece of water was formed by widening a considerablebrook. We allude to those wa%-y serpentine canals, which are never mistaken for naturalscenes, and, in almost every case, might be advantageously exchanged for a lake. Arill, however, may have its course rendered more varied, may be expanded at properplaces into regular shapes, and all the alterations accounted for and harmonised by plant-ing. (fg. 698.). 7224. Progress and impetuosity are the two leading ideas wliich belong to runningwaters. The first expression may be heightened by counteracting any tendency to ex-pansion ; by removing some of the circuitous aiid oblong projections of earth or stone inthe banks ; and sometimes by deepening its bed, or by substituting a more direct line fora circuitous course. The idea of impetuosity is indicated by its effects, in reverberatingagainst high banks, or common banks, on which trees are situated, and may be increasedby augmenting the cause or the effect, and thus either digging and undermining the trees,cutting down the high banks on which the water acts, or placing very slight piers as jettieson the opposite shore. Picturesque additions to the marginal accompaniments both of 3 T 2 1012 PRACTICE OF GARDENING. Part III. rivers and rills will readily suggest themselves. Cascades and waterfalls maybe created ; and the occasional expansion of natural brooks i
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