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always have pergolas, which in a great measure serve the 

 same purpose under another name; but grounds designed in 

 the natural style nowadays commonly have nothing of the 

 sort. The only substitute is the porch or wide house veranda, 

 where the family and friends may sit out of doors to read, 

 sew, gossip or, at times, to enjoy a social luncheon. As out- 

 door life is to be encouraged in every way, and as the use of a 

 garden or private park is equally to be recommended, the 

 introduction of attractive summer houses or arbors really 

 ought to come back into vogue. 



2. Statuary, vases, and similar architectural ornaments, 

 are the fitting associates of Grecian and Italian houses, and 

 are decidedly less suitable in relation to every other style. 

 Not that such things as low terrace walls with or without 

 tracery, pillars for sundials, ornamented with the details of 

 pointed architecture, and even vases or urns of a particular 

 form and with proper decorations, will be faulty in connection 

 with Gothic buildings, and formal gardens of the same char- 

 acter. Only, the varieties of the Grecian style, with their 

 architectural arrangement of walks, beds, etc., would appear 

 to correspond most with and demand such ornaments as 

 vases, tazzas, urns, pillars, sculptured figures, basins of water, 

 with fountains, and the like things, to carry out and finish 

 their expression and design. 



It may be worthy of consideration in adapting statuary 

 or sculptured figures to the purposes of garden ornament 

 whether there is not an unmeaning anachronism in our per- 

 severing adherence to the old classical subjects and nude 

 representations, and how far it may not be desirable to break 

 from such trammels and present rural objects, local pecu- 

 liarities of costume, or some artistic embodiment of such 

 ideas as the country and a garden suggest. For, apart from 

 the mere beauty of form, it surely cannot be fitting that the 



