354 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



Vases of real stone, as marble or granite, are decorations 

 of too costly a kind ever to come into general use among us. 

 Vases, however, of equally beautiful forms, are manufactured 

 of artificial stone, of fine pottery, or of cast iron, which have 

 the same eflfect, and are of nearly equal durability, as garden 

 decorations. 



A vase should never, in the open air, be set down upon 

 the ground or grass, without being placed upon a firm base of 

 some description, either Si plinth or a pedestal. Without a 

 base of this kind, it has a temporary look, as if it had been left 

 there by mere accident, and without any intention of per- 

 manence. Placing it upon a pedestal, or square plinth, (block 

 of stone,) gives it a character of art, at once more dignified 

 and expressive of stability. Besides this, the pedestal in 

 reality serves to preserve the vase in a perpendicular posi- 

 tion, as well as to expose it fairly to the eye, which could 

 not be the case were it put down, without any preparation, 

 on the bare turf or gravel. 



Figure 46 is a Gothic, and figures 47, 48, are Gre- 

 cian vases, commonly manufactured in plaster in our 

 cities, but which are also made of Roman cement. 

 They are here shown upon suitable pedestals — a 

 being the vase, and b the pedestal. These with 

 many other elegant vases and urns are manufactured 

 in an artificial stone, as durable as marble, by Austin 

 of London, and together with a great variety of other 

 beautiful sculpturesque decorations, may be imported at very 

 reasonable prices. 



Figures 49, 50, are beautiful vases of pottery ware, manu- 

 factured by Peake, of Staffordshire — and which may be im- 

 ported cheaply, or will be made to order at the Salamander 

 works, in New- York. These vases, when coloured, to imitate 



