and on the Employment of Vases. 



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Niagara. There is, however, room for the display of various 

 styles, as well in laying out ground as in building, and, in the 

 neighborhood of the old Atlantic cities, well kept grounds, in 

 the modern style, would be at once appropriate and delightful. 

 So also in those wilder situations in the country, where nature 

 exists in her pristine loveliness, the eye is occasionally delighted 

 to witness the work of art — a fine building and a stately avenue. 

 In short, the ultimatum of our wishes is, to see our numerous 

 and inteUigent landed proprietors exercising a well cultivated 

 and nicely discriminating taste, with which, taking advantage of 

 the location, they would produce, in their buildings and grounds, 

 the greatest beauty and enjoyment, combined with a perfect har- 

 mony of expression, in the whole scene. 



It will not be inadvertent to the present hasty remarks to hint 

 at the additional charm which may be produced in highly finished 

 places, especially where the buildings are in the Grecian style, 

 by introducing into the lawns and gardens the classic vase in its 



different forms,* and, if thought desi- 

 rable, statues also. They serve as it 

 were as a connecting link between so 

 highly artificial an object as a modern 

 villa, and the verdant lawns and gay 

 gardens which surround it. Elevated 

 upon pedestals, and placed at suitable 

 points in the view — on the parapets of 

 terraces near the house — before a 

 group of foliage upon the lawn, and 

 at proper intervals in the garden, 

 they give a classic and elegant air 

 to the whole, which adds greatly to 

 its value. Beautiful in their forms, 

 contrasting finely with the deep green 

 of vegetation, and leading the eye 

 gradually from their own sculptured 

 beauty to the architectural symmetry 

 of the building, of which they form as 

 it were a continuous though detached 

 part, amalgamating it with the grounds 

 in which it is placed — their effect can 

 only be appreciated beforehand by those who have studied the 

 excellent effect produced by their introduction into the scene. 



* The above are copies of two handsome and cheap vases now man- 

 ufactured in New York. Fig. 10 is two feet six inches high, without 

 the pedestal (6), and is formed of plaster or Roman cement (so pre- 

 pared as to withstand the weather), at Coffee's manufactory. Canal 

 Street, New York, where many other fine patterns may be found. The 



