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• Cascade/Cataract/Waterfall
  addition of rocks, or by building a completely artificial cascade. Directions for constructing cascades suggest that they were features that could be built on
  35 KB (4,959 words) - 10:16, February 18, 2021
• Fountain
  I was amused in viewing his curious water fountain, spouting jets and cascades.” back up to History Anonymous, May 9, 1831, describing Columbia Garden
  68 KB (9,285 words) - 16:06, April 1, 2021
• Canal
  quincunces, verdant halls, arbour work, mazes, labyrinths, fountains, cabinets, cascades, canals, terraces, &c.” Johnson, Samuel, 1755, A Dictionary of the English
  32 KB (4,191 words) - 10:41, April 6, 2021
• Montgomery Place
  buried itself and was soothed to quiet. I have sometimes thought that to cascades nature has given a greater and more unending variety than to any other
  68 KB (8,891 words) - 18:36, August 24, 2021
• Grove
  fence, we were delightfully astonished with the view of one of the finest cascades in America. . . The distance we judged to be about a quarter of a mile
  80 KB (11,541 words) - 13:25, April 12, 2021
• Jet
  constructions for displaying water, as an artificial decoration, the principal are cascades, waterfalls, jets, and fountains. . . “1829. Jets and other hydraulic devices
  23 KB (3,268 words) - 13:19, April 12, 2021
• Ephraim Chambers
  signifies the same; of cascare to fall; and that from the latin cadere. “Cascades are either natural, as that of Tivoli; or artificial, as those of Versailles
  44 KB (6,010 words) - 20:01, September 8, 2021
• Basin
  artificial characters which it there assumes of oblong canals, ponds, basins, cascades, and jets d’eaux. . .” [Fig. 12] back up to History Webster, Noah, 1828
  28 KB (3,634 words) - 15:51, April 8, 2021
• Grotto
  subscriber; who perfectly understands. . . erecting water works. . . fountains, cascades, grottos.” Johnson, Samuel, 1755, A Dictionary of the English Language
  29 KB (3,925 words) - 16:49, March 29, 2021
• Gray’s Garden
  grottoes, a piazza, and water features that included “one of the finest cascades in America.” To accomplish all this, Vaughan reportedly hired an English
  48 KB (6,603 words) - 22:22, August 18, 2021
• Vase/Urn
  them off the better; in Porticos, and Arbors of Trellis-work; in Basons, Cascades, &c. In general, they do well every where; and you can scarce have too
  39 KB (5,376 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021
• Aviary/Bird cage/Birdhouse
  terminate within the Garden, are best finish’d with Mounts, Aviaries, Grotto’s, Cascades, Rocks, Ruins, Niches, or Amphitheatres of Ever-Greens, variously mix’d
  16 KB (2,173 words) - 13:33, April 12, 2021
• Pleasure ground/Pleasure garden
  landscapes that included parterres, groves, grass plots, arbors, fountains, and cascades. The terms were relatively interchangeable in the 19th century, as indicated
  58 KB (7,874 words) - 14:42, March 10, 2021
• Ferme ornée/Ornamental farm
  road is of red earth, that on the further part grey. The first and second cascades are beautiful. The landscape at number eighteen, and the prospect at thirty-two
  22 KB (3,048 words) - 16:22, April 7, 2021
• Wood/Woods
  Comedy, Covered Halls, Natural and Artificial Arbors, Fountains, Isles, Cascades, Water-Galleries, Green-Galleries, &c. . . . “THERE are Woods of divers
  58 KB (8,455 words) - 15:19, August 13, 2021
• Pond
  artificial characters which it there assumes of oblong canals, ponds, basins, cascades, and jeux-d’eau (fig. 694) ;" “7219. Ponds in different levels, seen in
  60 KB (8,442 words) - 13:41, April 12, 2021
• G. (George) Gregory
  grass-plat or shrubbery, on serpentines and mazes, and fishponds; or even on cascades, to the infinite annoyance of his visitors, the prejudice of his own health
  25 KB (3,864 words) - 17:46, September 13, 2021
• Henry Pratt
  numerous summerhouses adorned with marble statues, goldfish ponds, fountains, cascades, and bowers (view text), as well as trellises, springhouses, and temples
  33 KB (4,445 words) - 21:19, October 5, 2021
• Blithewood
  bold stream, fringed with woody banks, and dashing over several rocky cascades, thirty or forty feet in height, and falling, altogether, a hundred feet
  75 KB (10,290 words) - 18:14, August 24, 2021
• View/Vista
  appearance; imitations, therefore, of the wilder scenes of nature, such as rocks, cascades, old trees, and festoons of climbing plants, should be situated back and
  80 KB (11,249 words) - 19:23, August 12, 2021

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