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On Garden Architecture. 



ON GARDEN ARCHITECTURE. 



A GARDEN is, Strictly speaking, a piece of ground highly embellished. 

 Its use is to please, to gratify the senses ; and it does this by presenting 

 to the eyes at every step the most choice and delightful images and combi- 

 nations. In this country, perhaps in others, it has been the custom to call 

 many a piece of ground a " garden " which could with little propriety lay 

 claim to the name. They are so called, in fact, only by the same demo- 

 cratic courtesy which accords to women of every character and degree 

 the title of " lady." A parterre of flowers mixed up in heterogeneous con- 

 fusion is not a garden : a piece of ground, part lawn, part wood, part 

 swamp, part strawberry-beds, part shrubs, part beds of flowers, is not a 



