350 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



enrichment,) it may be an architectural flower-garden. In 

 the latter case, intermingled with the flowers, are to be seen 

 vases, fountains, and sometimes even statues ; the efiect of 

 the fine colours and deep foliage of the former, heightened 

 by contrast with the sculptured forms of the latter. 



If our readers will now step back a few rods with us and 

 take a second view of our villa residence, with its supposed 

 harmonizing accessories, we think they can hardly fail to be 

 impressed at once, with the great improvement of the whole. 

 The eye now, instead of witnessing the sudden termination of 

 the architecture at the base of the house, where the lawn 

 commences as suddenly, will be at once struck with the in- 

 creased variety and richness imparted to the whole scene, by 

 the addition of the architectural and garden decorations. 

 The mind is led gradually down from the house, with its 

 projecting porch or piazzas, to the surrounding terrace crown- 

 ed with its beautiful vases, and from thence to the architec- 

 tural flower-garden, interspersed with similar ornaments. 

 The various play of light afforded by these sculptured forms 

 on the terrace, the projections and recesses of the parapet, 

 with here and there, some climbing plants luxuriantly en- 

 wreathing it, and throwing out the mural objects in strong- 

 er relief, aiT,d connecting them pleasingly with the verdure 

 of the turf beneath ; the still farther rambling off" of vases, 

 etc., into the brilliant flower-garden, which, through these 

 ornaments, maintains an avowed connection with the archi- 

 tecture of the house; all this, we think it cannot be denied, 

 forms a rich setting to the architecture, and unites agreeably 

 the forms of surrounding nature with the more regular and 

 uniform outlines of the building. 



The effect, we think, will be not less pleasing if reviewed 

 from another point of view, viz : the terrace, or from the 



