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of the building or buildings in contiguity. A dwelling 

 house must have i:)orclies, promenades, provision for the 

 exercise, rest or enjoyment of its inhabitants in the open 

 air, with more or less protection under foot and over- 

 head. A public building must have its colonnades, log- 

 gias and approaches. These may extend indefinitely 

 away from the proper walls of the building and into the 

 area of the garden. It is necessary only to kee}) up a 

 close and obvious connection between the entrance steps, 

 the walks of stone or marble flagging, tlie resting seats 

 of bewn stone, the fountains, the statuary and the stone 

 boundary walls, to see how comjiletely the main edifice 

 may extend quite to the boundary of the grounds. 



Looking at it in this light it is manifest that the 

 surrounding grounds, developed from the central build- 

 ing, are accessory and subordinate to it. Tbey serve as 

 an appropriate frame in which to exhibit the beauty of 

 the building. They do not attempt to hide the main 

 work of architecture, nor to draw attention away from 

 it, but to point out and empbasize its beauties. It 

 would be well if this point were borne in mind by land- 

 scape gardeners in general ; for there are many cases in 

 which the buildings are of supreme interest, and any 

 gardening which oi^enly competes with them for public 

 attention and admiration is pronouncedly intolerable. 

 It is doubtful if any naturalistic effects should ever be 

 attempted in such cases. It can be fairly said that the 

 possibilities of developing such places after the Italian 

 methods are seldom realized in this country ; for while 

 we have a great deal of painfully unnatural gardening, 

 we have wofully little creditable architectural adornment 

 outside the paint which covers our houses. 



The principle of choice between the two great styles 

 has already been pointed out. In situations where the 

 buildings are necessarily pi-edominant, the architectural 

 style^ is more easy of application, while in those cases 



