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Fig. 40. 



protect property from fire. They are 

 of various patterns and power. Some of 

 them, worked by a single arm, cast the 

 water fifty to sixty feet high. | 



E N K i A N T H U S. Two species. 

 Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cut- 

 tings. Sandy loam and peat. 



ENTADA. Five species. Stove ever- 

 green climbers. Cuttings. Loam and 

 peat. 



ENTELEA. Two species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. 

 Loam and sandy peat. 



ENTRANCES. Upon these parts of 

 a residence, which should give a first 

 and appropriate impression, Mr. VVhate- 

 ley has these just remarks : 



"The road which leads up to the 

 door of the mansion may go off from it 

 in an equal angle, so that tiie two sides 

 shall exactly correspond ; and certain 

 ornaments, though detached, are yet 

 rather within the province of architec- 

 ture than of gardening ; works of sculp- 

 ture are not, like buildings, objects 

 familiar in scenes of cultivated nature ; 

 but vases, statues, and termini, are 

 usual appendages to a considerable edi- ! 

 fice : as such, they may attend the man- 

 sion, and trespass a little upon the gar- 

 den, provided they are not carried so 

 far into it as to lose their connexion 

 with the structure. The platform and 

 the road are also appurtenances to the 

 house ; all these may, therefore, be 

 adapted to its form ; and the environs I 

 will thereby acquire a degree of regu- 1 



larity ; but to give it to the objects of 

 nature, only on account of their prox- 

 imity to others which are calculated to 

 receive it, is, at the best, a refinement. 



" Upon the same principles regu- 

 larity has been required in the approach; 

 and an additional reason has been as- 

 signed for it, that the idea of a seat is 

 thereby extended to a distance ; but 

 that may be by other means than by an 

 avenue ; a private road is easily known; 

 if carried through grounds, or a park, 

 it is commonly very apparent ; even in 

 a lane, here and there a bench, a paint- 

 ed gate, a small plantation, or any other 

 little ornament, will sufficiently denote 

 it. If the entrance only be marked, 

 simple preservation will retain the im- 

 pression along the whole progress ; or 

 it may wind through several scenes dis- 

 tinguished by objects, or by an extraor- 

 dinary degree of cultivation : and then 

 the length of the way, and the variety 

 of improvements through which it is 

 conducted, may extend the appearance 

 ofdomain and the idea of a seat, beyond 

 the reach of any direct avenue. A 

 narrow vista, a mere line of perspective, 

 be the extent what it may, will seldom 

 compensate for the loss of that space 

 which it divides, and of the parts which 

 it conceals. 



"Regularity was, however, once 

 thought essential to every garden and 

 every approach ; and it yet remains in 

 many. It is still a character denoting 

 the neighbourhood of a gentleman's 



