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be grown by the most accomplished horticul- ration just as much as Horace's rendering of 

 turist ; there is the placing it in the right taste is indisputable, thus translated : — 



A subtle fancy, and a judgment chaste, 

 Form the nice mixture of a genuine taste. 



And so we have something more than the 

 mere cultivation, the mere assortment of 



?ig. 2. —Central Decoration for a Conservatory. 



l^lace, so as it will not only look well itself, '^' '^'~ ^"''^^^^ emery, 



but that it will even make its associates look plants to consider ; we have to look upon them 



..._,..„.^ .^,^^,^^^. - ,, — ^^.., vt.^^x-^f^N in the relation to which, not only the one 



-^^^^^=— ^^^^^ti stands with the other in the way of contrasting 



h 



Fig. 3. — Fernery with Fountain. 



Fig. 5,— Summer Furnishing of Drawing-room Grate. 



better than they would if placed down in an its varied features of habit, leaf, or inflores- 

 • ndiscriminate way. That is true deco- cence, or shading the one into the other with 



