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Architectural Gardening. 



intruders in the surroundings of a cottage ornee.^or a landscape of 

 a highly picturesque character, but, as tributary objects to the 

 splendor of a villa, whose architecture is elaborate and pretentious, 

 they become not only desirable, but indispensable appendages. In 



such instances, the presence of stat- 

 uary is demanded in order to contri- 

 bute completeness of expression, and 

 entire harmony, suggested by the 

 aflSnity of art objects. 



If statues, and vases, and foun- 

 tains, are not permisable as tasteful 

 decorations contiguous to suburban 

 dwellings, then the like incongruity 

 is apparent in a purely ornamental 

 building itself ; as nature, (the hob- 

 by upon which the prohibitor of 

 sculptural objects, bases his opposi- 

 tion,) does not fashion our tenements, 

 no more than she does a Medidan 

 Venus. The diflSculty can be summed 

 up in a nut shell. We have invaria- 

 bly discovered, that those who are 

 most fervid in their admiration of 

 nature, to the utter abandonment of 

 cultivated sentiments, are such whose 

 education and early prejudices were 

 directed to beauty as signalised in 

 dollars and cents. Subsequently 

 with a satiety of the pleasure engen- 

 dered by accumulating gold, comes 

 a desire for those more peaceful at- 

 tractions connected with fruits, flow- 

 ers, graceful trees, green lawns, an 

 elegant house, etc. Such a person, 

 we repeat, is incapable of appreciat- 

 ling or recognising beauty in a stat- 

 [ue, although it were the handiwork 

 of Angelo. To entertain admiration 

 for works of art, it is necessary that 



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