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SCIENCE OF GARDENING. 



PART II. 



SECT. III. Decorative Buildings. 



1768. The general characteristic of decorative buildings is, that they are introduced more 

 for their picturesque effect as parts of external scenery, than as absolutely necessary. 

 Their construction, like the others, belongs chiefly to civil architecture and sculpture ; 

 but the choice and emplacement to gardening. Their variety is almost endless ; but we 

 shall rank a few selections under the different heads of useful, convenient, and character- 

 istic decorations. 



SUBSECT. 1. Useful Decorative Buildings. 



1769. Useful decorations are such as while they serve as ornaments, or to heighten the 

 effect of a scene, are also applied to some real use, as in the case of cottages and bridges. 

 They are the class of decorative buildings most general and least liable to objection. 



1770. Cottages are of various 302 

 sorts ; one grand division is 



founded on the style of archi- 

 tecture employed, as Grecian, 

 Gothic, Chinese, &c. ; another, 

 on the materials used, as stone, 

 brick, timber, trees unbarked 

 (Jig. 302.), wicker-work, with 

 moss or mud; and another, on 

 the peculiar style of different 

 countries, as English, Swedish, 

 Italian, &c. (See Prin. of Design 

 in Arch. 8vo. 1821.) 



1771. The Gothic cottage is 

 characterised by the forms of the 



Gothic or pointed style of architecture in the openings, as doors, windows, &c. in the 

 chimney-tops and gable-ends. It may be thatched ; but the most appropriate roof is 

 grey slate, or slate stone, or flat grey tiles. 



1772. The Grecian cottage is that in which the lines of Grecian architecture prevail. 

 These are generally horizontal, and may be displayed in the windows, roof, and other 

 parts. The roof is generally flat and projecting, and the best slate or flag stone seems 

 the most approved covering. 



1773 The Chinese cottage (fig. 303i) is characterised by concave lines in the roof, pro- 

 jecting eaves, small windows, and bell or drop ornaments. The proper roofing is party- 

 colored tiles, with which the walls may also be covered. 



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1774. The Bengal cottage has walls of mud, the openings surrounded by frames of 

 bamboo, the doors and divisions of the windows of the same material, and the roof covered 

 with reeds or palm-leaves. 



1 775. The English cottage is generally Gothic as to style, the lowest order formed of 

 mud and thatvhed, with boarded labels over the windows and doors ; the second order of 



