164 Landscape Gardening 



the various constituents of a garden with the house and 

 harmonize the two by communicating a more artistic tone 

 to the garden. 



Wing walls to a house, broken by a conservatory, and ter- 

 minated by a summer house, aviary, museum, or sculpture 

 room ; corridors, similarly broken and terminated, and glazed 

 or open so as merely to form covered ways; viaducts, aque- 

 ducts, arbors, arches, arcades, tunnels, boathouses, temples, 

 prospect and flag towers; with an almost infinite number of 

 smaller objects, such as sculptured figures, sundials, statu- 

 ary, pillars, obehsks, terrace walls, etc., constitute the elements 

 with which garden architecture has to work. 



In its leading traits it necessarily comes within the same 

 category as house architecture, and is governed by the same 

 principles. Like the house it should exhibit design, some 

 degree of symmetry, harmony of parts, unity of expression, 

 consistency of style, fitness for the locaHty, adaptation for 

 the intended purpose, and stabihty and permanence of ap- 

 pearance. 



But it should also display a greater amount of lightness 

 and elegance; a comparative absence of regularity; a decora- 

 tive rather than an exclusively useful purpose; a superior 

 variety of outhne; extreme attention to general grouping; a 

 blending of its forms with those of nature; an especial regard 

 for placing its creations where they will have a distinct mean- 

 ing and object; a leaning to the use of good materials, but 

 somewhat rougher than those employed in the house; a pref- 

 erence rather for a picturesque outHne than for mere orna- 

 mental details; and, as a most important characteristic, a 

 marked boldness and prominence of parts. Indeed, pic- 

 turesqueness, such as would be occasioned by changes of 

 level in the ground, by diversity in the heights of walls, by 

 prominent piers, buttresses, or cornices, by broad projecting 



