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HINTS ON ORNAMENTAL GARDENING.

(Continued from p. 125.) PLATE 20.—A FOUNTAIN.

IN art, as in matters of less importance, it frequently happens, that Fashion encroaches upon, or supersedes, the more steady patronage of fitness and propriety; and in her vacillating progress, adopts or discards, equally without reflection; and in her dismissal, the subject, which was hitherto her pride and boast, becomes as obnoxious to her distaste: thus it was with the fountain in ornamental gardening.

of falls, fountains, and jets-d'eau. Fashion immediately took them up, and water was spouting every where; no place was complete without a fountain; and the first recommendation of the tasteful towards the embellishment of a garden, court, walk, or alley, was, "Certainly place a fountain there:" and soon the very sign-boards of London, then in no small number or display, abounded with semblances of "Fountains," to the manifest prejudice of Blue Boars, Black and White Bears, and Lions of every colour.

As in other cases where fashion predominates, its fulness produced its fall: their absurd adoption in

Fountains, or sources of water, were respected or held sacred, from very high antiquity, in the Eastern nations, as is recorded by historians, both sacred and profane. The Greeks, Tuscans, and Romans employed them as useful and de-most instances, with the incessant corative architecture; and hence they were adopted by the Italians and the French. In the formation of the celebrated gardens of Versailles, they were introduced in profuse magnificence, and became a prime feature in all the varieties fol. VIII. No. XLVI.

repetition of them, occasioned sa-
tiety and disgust; consequently
they were demolished with as little
regard to fine feeling or sound
judgment, as in most instances they
had been erected.

A small vestige of them still re-
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