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where we often see the water in its progress from one lake to
another, dashing among broken fragments, or gently gliding
over ledges of rock, which form the bottom of the channel: this
may be accomplished at HAREWOOD, where the most beautiful
stone is easily procured; but in disposing the ledges of rock, they
should not be laid horizontally, but with the same slanting incli-
nation that is observed more or less in the bed of the neighbour-
ing river. A hint of such management is shewn under this bridge,
the design of which may serve as a specimen of architecture,
neither too much nor too little ornamented for rock scenery, in
the neighbourhood of a palace.

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CHAPTER IV.

Of PLANTING for immediate and for future Effect—Clumps—
Groups—Masses—New Mode of planting Wastes and Commons
—the browsing Line described—Example MILTON ABBEY—
Combination of Masses to produce great Woods—Example
COOMBE LODGE—Character and Shape of Ground to be studied
—Outline of new Plantations.

THE following observations on planting are not intended to pursue the minute detail so copiously and scientifically described in EVELYN's Sylva, and so frequently quoted, or rather repeated from him, in modern publications; I shall merely consider it as a relative subject: and being one of the chief ornaments in landscape gardening when skilfully appropriated, I shall divide it into two distinct heads: the first including those single trees or groups which may be planted of a larger size to produce present effect; the second comprehending those masses of plantation destined to become woods or groves for future generations.

Since few of the practical followers of Mr. Brown possessed
that force of genius which rendered him, according to MASON,

—"The living leader of thy powers,
Great Nature"—

it is no wonder that they should have occasionally copied the
means he used, without considering the effect which he intended