On Garden Architecture. 



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from below, and will serve to give distance to the objects behind them ; 

 whereas, if they are placed at the bottom, they will either come again^it the 

 bank in a diagonal view, or will cut against the upper line of the slope, 

 half relieved against the bank, and half against the objects beyond the 

 upper walk, and thus lose their full effect from either point of view. 



The diagram. Fig. 8, gives the simplest way of decorating such a flight 

 of steps, shown in profile. The upper step should be widened sufficiently 

 to correspond to the plinth under the vase; and this latter should be set 

 low, so as to harmonize, and not contrast violently (as in Fig. 9) with the 



FIG. 9. 



Steps and bank. The effect of this latter from below is shown in the fol- 

 lowing cut : — 







If the house and all its adjuncts are rich and elegant, there is no 

 objection to decorating even a simple flight of steps with sculpture, if 

 the flight is of sufficient magnitude so that the objects on either side will 



