. An encyclopædia of gardening; . ation ofpieces of water, we must refer, for whatconcerns it as a material of landscape, to Landscape-gardening. (Part III. Book IV.) 1953. Smfaces to imitate nature, such as hills, knolls, and all the variety of raisedsurfaces in pleasure-grounds, are formed by heaping up materials in the indicated shapes ;and hollows of equal variety, by hollowing them out; in both cases, studying to keep thebest earth at the surface, and so to blend the forms with those to whidi they are united,that no line of demarcation may ever afterwards be discoverable. 1954. Surfaces a
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . ation ofpieces of water, we must refer, for whatconcerns it as a material of landscape, to Landscape-gardening. (Part III. Book IV.) 1953. Smfaces to imitate nature, such as hills, knolls, and all the variety of raisedsurfaces in pleasure-grounds, are formed by heaping up materials in the indicated shapes ;and hollows of equal variety, by hollowing them out; in both cases, studying to keep thebest earth at the surface, and so to blend the forms with those to whidi they are united,that no line of demarcation may ever afterwards be discoverable. 1954. Surfaces avowedly artificial, as levels, terraces, slopes, banks, beds of earth, ordung-beds, being once distinctly marked out, are executed with equal facility and greatercertainty of attaining the end or effect. Formerly the geometric style of gardening af-forded an ample field for the exercise of this class of operations ; but at present they arechiefly confined to the kitchen-garden, the sites of buildings, and a linaittnl space around. 382 SCIENCE OF GARDENING Part 11. the mansion. Wliatevcr may be the surface dosthied for a court or square of buildings,as a stable-yard or fannery, it must be reduced to a plane or planes connected in such away as not to interfere with utility or effect. It is not essential that the surface beformed to a perfect level, or to any one slope, but that order and connection should enterinto the choice of the slopes, whatever that may be. In kitchen-gardens it sometimeshappens that a level, or one general slope, may be adopted ; but much more frequentlythat different slopes enter into the composition of the enclosed surface. These subordi-nate planes or surfaces are all so connected as to balance and harmonise, and present tothe intelligent eye a work, not of chance, but of design and reflection. In a seemingly levelgarden it often happens that not one of the compartments is level; but each compartmentof itself forms one plane, diverging from the centre,
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