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vases, statues and fountains are to the pa- 

 iace or palace-like mansion. These last 

 indeed are splendid mid costly decorations, 

 and may not without reason be thought to 

 require tliat the whole should be of the 

 same chamcter ; but there are some, which 

 appear to accord with every style and scale 

 of houses and gardens. Trcllices, with the 

 diiicrent plants twining round them, and 

 even tlie small basket-work of parterres, 

 have a mixture of natural and of artificial, 

 and of the peculiar intricacy of each ; of 

 firmness and playfulness ; of wliat is fixed, 

 with what is continually changing. I there- 

 fore regret that fashion has so much ba- 

 nished them from gardens ; but, if I may 

 be allowed to apply, though to a new sub- 

 ject, so very hackneyed a quotation, I will 

 venture to prophecy in Horace s words, and 

 boldly say, 



*' MuUa renascentur que jam cccidere, cadentquc 

 " Oua naiic sunt in honore." 



I &baJi probably be accused by Mr. 



