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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



SECTION X. 



EMBELLISHMENTS ; ARCHITECTURAL, RUSTIC AND FLORAL. 



Value of a proper connection between the house and grounds. Beauty of the architectural 

 terrace, and its application to villas and cottages. Use of vases of different descriptions. 

 Sundials. Architectural flower garden. Irregular flower-garden. French flower-garden. 

 English flower-garden. General remarks on this subject. Selection of showy plants, flow- 

 ering in succession. Arrangement of the shrubbery, and selection of choice shrubs. The 

 conservatory or green-house. Open and covered seats. Pavilions. Rustic seats. Prospect 

 tower. Bridges. Rockwork. Fountains of various descriptions. Judicious introduction 

 of decorations. 



Nature, assuming a more lovely face 

 Borrowing a beauty from the works of grace. 



COWPER. 



Each odorous bushy shrub 



Fenced up the verdant wail; each beauteous flower; 

 Iris all Hues, Roses and Jessamine 

 Rear'd high their flourished heads between, 

 And wrought Mosaic. 



Milton. 



N our finest places, or those 

 country seats where much of 

 the poHsh of pleasure ground 

 or park scenery is kept up, one of the most striking defects, 

 is the want of ^'- union hetioeen the house and the grounds." 



