. An encyclopædia of gardening; . en-dering it impervious to water bypuddling( 1720.) or the use of propercements, and next varying theridge [b) and under side (c), witlifragments of rock, so chosen andplaced, as not to present a charac-ter foreign to what nature maybe supposed to have produced adjoining ground generally requires to be raised at such scenes, but may generallybe hai-monised by plantation. 7226. Where running water is conducted informs belonging to the geometric style of gar-dening, waterfalls and cascadesare constructed in the form ofcrescents, flights of steps, orwav
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . en-dering it impervious to water bypuddling( 1720.) or the use of propercements, and next varying theridge [b) and under side (c), witlifragments of rock, so chosen andplaced, as not to present a charac-ter foreign to what nature maybe supposed to have produced adjoining ground generally requires to be raised at such scenes, but may generallybe hai-monised by plantation. 7226. Where running water is conducted informs belonging to the geometric style of gar-dening, waterfalls and cascadesare constructed in the form ofcrescents, flights of steps, orwavy slopes ; all which have ex-cellent effects of their kind whenappropriately introduced, as atChatsworth, Hatton, and manyother places. 7227. A natural stream maysometimes be improved by alteringits direction, and bringing itthrough a more interesting partof the grounds; and we haveknown an admirable effect pro-duced by bringing a distantriver close to the house, even so mnch so as to wash the base of its (errWe-wail. (Jig. 701.). Book IV. OPERATING WITH ROCKS. 1013 Sect. IV. Roctes> 122%. The imitation of rocks forms no part of the geometric style of gardening, andare a material of the natural style, equally unsuitable to be created. But though rockscannot readily be imitated, their expression may sometimes be heightened when desirable,and concealed when disagreeable. 7229. The character of rocks may be savage, terrific, sublime, picturesque, or attending to the forms of the milder characters, and their connection with ground andtrees, we shall discover whether, and to what extent, they may be improved. Savagerocks are too inhospitable to be permanently admitted, in any extent, near the eye. Allrocks convey something of this idea that are not accompanied by vegetation ; and, there-fore, planting among or near them is, in eveiy case, an improvement where trees donot exist. All rocks are expressive of dignity ; those eminently so, are not greatly variedby projec
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