$4 A YEAR IN A LANCASHIRE GARDEN. 



so out of place, that they became absurd. Every 

 villa garden had its statue and its rockery. 



Batty Langley has an amusing chapter about 

 statues. He says " Nothing adds so much to the 

 beauty and grandeur of gardens as fine statues, 

 and nothing is more disagreeable than when they 

 are wrongly placed ; as Neptune on a terrace walk, 

 mound, &c. ; or Pan, the god of sheep, in a large 

 basin, canal, or fountain ; " and then, " to prevent 

 such absurdities," he gives the most elaborate 

 directions. Mars and Jupiter, Fame and Venus, 

 Muses and Fates, Atlas, Hercules, and many more, 

 are for open centres or lawns. Sylvan us, Actaeon, 

 and Echo, are among those recommended for woods. 

 Neptune, Oceanus, and the Naiades, will do for 

 canals and fish-ponds. Pomona and the Hesperides 

 for orchards, Flora and Runcina (" the goddess of 

 weeding") for flower-gardens, Bacchus for vine- 

 yards, ^Eolus for high terrace walks, and "the 

 goddess Vallonta " for valleys. He gives the right 

 deities for paddocks, for wheat-fields, for " ambus- 

 cados," and for beehives. In short there is no 

 place for which he does not think a statue orna- 

 mental and appropriate. I hope he would approve 

 of my own very humble idea, which is a statue of 

 Hyacinthus, for, where I thought of placing it, 



