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the landmark is set ; thus far and no farther dare root of melon 

 or foot of woodlouse come, therefore two of the greatest plao-ues 

 are stayed. 



Art. VI. The Landscape-Gardening of F. L. von Sckell of Mtinich. 

 Translated from the German for the " Gardener's Magazine." 



(^Continued from p. 415.) 

 III. On the Architectural Edifices which are suitable for a Garden. 

 I. Though every garden ought to be so constituted as to pro- 

 duce a pleasing and even an sesthetical effect, altogether inde- 

 pendently of any aid from architecture, yet it cannot be denied 

 that architectural ornaments, judiciously apfJlied, add greatly 

 to the effect of any garden, and even assist in giving it a dis- 

 tinctive character, as such objects are of rare occurrence in the 

 general landscape. In adapting buildings to a garden, great 

 taste and judgment are, however, required, in order that the 

 buildings should neither be too large nor too small, in proportion 

 to the extent of ground which they are required to decorate. 

 Great care should also be taken not to make the buildings too 

 numerous, this being a fault which has been frequently fallen 

 into in celebrated places ; as, for example, at Stowe in England, 

 and at Schwetzingen in the Palatinate of the Rhine: though in 

 the latter case the fault is almost excused, on account of its ex- 

 tremely beautiful temple and other buildings in the noblest style 

 of architecture, which far excel those of every other garden in 

 Europe. The monuments, also, of antiquity cannot be dispensed 

 with; as each, with its surrounding plantation, forms a pic- 

 turesque scene of itself 



2. Among the architectural edifices the most suitable for a 

 garden, the temples of the Greeks and Romans, in which they 

 offered their sacrifices to their gods, in all the pomp and 

 magnificence of the Pagan religion, should certainly find a 

 place. The most beautiful forms and proportions are seen in 

 these temples, and it is only in these that the columns of the 

 different orders are seen in all their magnitude and beauty. It 

 is only in temples that the eye can repose on these orders with 

 delight, because then no other object is combined with them to 

 diminish their size, or to weaken their beautiful proportions, and 

 thereby to interrupt the enjoyment the mind is capable of feeling 

 from their contemplation. The most perfect of these temples 

 is only finished by being surmounted by a dome; and this, and 

 the beautiful entablature of the Greeks, have been handed down 

 to us from remote antiquity, as the forms most worthy of imita- 

 tion. But as the temples of the ancients were very different in 

 their forms and character, as well as in their proportions and 



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