XX11 INTRODUCTION. 



had burst forth, and spreading themselves on 

 the outside of the basket, were bent back 

 again at the top by the corners of the tile, the 

 beautiful appearance of this combination so 

 delighted Callimachus by its elegance and 

 novelty, that he immediately adopted the 

 form of the basket surrounded with the 

 Acanthus, as a capital for his pillars. 



Repton observes, that the general forms of 

 enrichments may be thus classed : — <e The 

 Gothic are derived from the bud or germ, the 

 Grecian from the leaf, and the Indian from the 

 flower; a singular coincidence," says this 

 British architect, u which seems to mark, that 

 these three styles are and ought to be kept 

 perfectly distinct.'' 



The pagodas of the Chinese seem to us to 

 have been modelled after the form of some 

 species of pine-trees. 



Of the antiquity of pleasure-gardens we 

 have already written in the Sylva Florifera ; 

 but we must now observe, that the luxury of 

 having- them attached to our dwellings origi- 

 nated with Epicurus, who first gave the idea 

 to the Athenians, about two hundred and sixty 

 years before the birth of Christ. 



