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pots have been reproduced in this country, and are in every way as desirable as 

 those made on the other side. A most excellent design, of large size, having the 

 four masks and connecting festoons around it in high relief, can be bought for 50; 



smaller and simpler patterns for corre- 

 spondingly less. 



The urn is usually more elaborate 

 than the pot, and as such requires less 

 growth to make it interesting. Some- 

 times, in fact, it may be advisable to 

 omit the growth entirely. The proper 

 place for the urn is that of slight or fair 

 elevation, usually on top of a wall or 

 fence post, at least not on the ground. 

 The old Italian oil jar has been used to 

 considerable advantage, and its plain, 

 simple lines are excellent. 



The use of the free column has 

 been much abused in this country. The 

 American garden is not the place to 

 reproduce ruins or partially restored 

 Pompeian effects. The architectural 

 column should have something to sup- 

 port, even if it be nothing more than a 

 sphere or decorative eagle, and even then 

 it often has no excuse for its existence. 

 A column of fair size may be used, often- 

 times, as a support for the wistaria or 

 trumpet creeper, especially when it is 

 advisable to carry a mass of colour above 

 the ordinary height. Being thus used it 

 should be simple, and may be surmounted by an armillary sphere, or skeleton globe, 

 which would insure the massing of foliage and flowers at the top. 



The free column may be a made-up affair in wood, supported by a post set 

 in the ground. The globe at the top may be made of three good barrel hoops 

 placed after the manner of the meridians, and having a fourth hoop round about 

 them after the manner of the equator. As this skeleton is supposed to be filled 

 and intertwined with some climbing vine, the hoops answer the purpose very well. 

 A made-up column 15 feet high and 15 inches across at the base, with simply 

 moulded cap and base, can be bought for $25. 



The old Classic device representing the head of Hermes on a tapering shaft 

 about the height of a man is frequently used in pairs to mark the beginning of a 

 walk. He is often represented with double heads, back to back, and in this form 

 it is not advisable to turn one or the other of his faces to the wall. 



The garden lantern may be said to be distinctly a feature of the Japanese 

 garden, but it can be used elsewhere if desired. The garden may be made ex- 

 tremely interesting at night by the use of lanterns placed on the side or top of the 



Sun-dial in cedar garden of R. L. Stevens, Esq.. at Bernards 

 ville, N. J. Daniel Langton, landscape architect 



