3Bx>oiutfon of Iborticulture 



mansion may be more elaborate and 

 stately. All houses should be in unison 

 with the surroundings. If these are quiet 

 and beautiful, partaking of the Garden- 

 esque form, then the dwelling should 

 correspond by simplicity of outline and 

 by a certain refinement, as shown in the 

 Italian and in other classical modes of 

 architecture. If the adjacent grounds are 

 wild and picturesque, the architectural 

 style will admit of more irregularity, and 

 of a ruder kind of ornamentation. 



With the Geometrical form of the gar- 

 dening art is closely associated the style 

 of architecture of the days of Henry and 

 Elizabeth. * c Gardening and Architecture, 

 like all the fine arts, have much in com- 

 mon. And that department of architec- 

 ture which belongs to the garden more 

 exclusively, has especially a great affinity 

 with gardening in its broader principles. 

 In fact, there is much more relation be- 

 tween the two than is usually admitted. 

 Modern tendencies in gardening have 

 been too much away from its character as 

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