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balusters, clustering on the top, and varyino- 

 the height of the wall in every style and 

 degree that the painter might direct. In the 

 summer, oranges, myrtles, and " each plant 

 of firm and fragrant leaf would most hap- 

 pily mix with them all; and vases of elegant 

 forms, as well as the plants contained in 

 them, would add to the general richness 

 and variety. 



I will here add, as a farther illustration 

 of this subject, that a bank in its broken 

 and picturesque state has the same advan- 

 tage in giving effect to whatever plants are 

 placed upon it, as the ornamented parapet 

 and many other ornamented parts of the old 

 gardens, and upon the same principle. The 

 only difference is, that in the one case every 

 thing is regular ; in the other irregular. A 

 smooth bank, uniformly and regularly 

 sloped, is in ground, what a mere wall is in 

 building; neat and finished, but totally 

 without variety. On the other hand,* the 

 overhanging coping, the cornice or mould- 

 ing, projections of every kind with their 

 correspondent hollo^vs, answer to the pro- 



