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SCIENCE OF GARDENING. 



PART II. 



be no rooms as resting-places, which are absolutely necessary, where ease and enjoyment 

 are studied, and where some attention is had to the delicacy of women, and the frailties 

 of old age. 



1808. Temples, either models or imitations of the religious buildings of the Greeks 

 and heathen Romans, are sometimes introduced in garden-scenery to give dignity and 

 beauty. In residences of a certain extent and character, they may be admissible as imi- 

 tations, as resting-places, and as repositories of sculptures or antiquities. Though their 

 introduction has been brought into contempt by its frequency, and by bad imitations in 

 perishable materials, yet they are not for that reason to be rejected by good taste. They 

 may often add dignity and a classic air to a scene ; and when erected of durable mate- 

 rials, and copied from good models, will, like their originals, please as independent ob- 

 jects. Knight, and some other connoisseurs of less note, disgusted by the abuse of 

 temples, have argued, as it appears to us, too exclusively against their introduction, and 

 contend for cottages as the fittest ornaments of rural scenery : but why limit the resources 

 of an art because they are liable to abuse ? Thatched roofs may become tiresome, as 

 well as columns ; and if Stow is an example of the latter carried to excess, White 

 Knights is as certainly of the former 



1809. Porches and porticoes (jig. 330.) are sometimes employed as decorative marks 

 to the entrances of scenes ; and sometimes merely as roofs to shelter seats or resting 

 benches. 



1810. Alcoves (Jig. 331.) are used as winter resting-places, as being fully exposed to 



the sun. 



1811. Arbors are used as 

 summer seats and resting-places : 

 they may be shaded with fruit- 

 trees, as the vine, currant, cherry ; 

 climbing ornamental shrubs, as 

 ivy, clematis, &c. ; or herba- 

 ceous, as everlasting pea, gourd, 

 &c. They are generally formed 

 of timber lattice-work, some- 

 times of woven rods, or wicker- 

 work, and occasionally of wire. 



1812. The Italian arbor (Jig, 



330 



332.) is generally covered with a dome, often framed of thick iron or copper wire 

 painted, and covered with vines or honeysuckles. 



332 33S 



1818. The French arbor (Jig. 333) is characterised by the various lines and surfaces, 

 which enter into the composition of the roof. 



1814. Caves and caverns, where they exist naturally in the grounds of a residence, as at 

 Piercefield, Corby Castle, &c., or can be readily formed, are to be regarded more as singu- 

 larities or picturesque objects than as places of use or enjoyment in this climate ; in Italy 

 and Spain they are great luxuries. 



1815. Grottoes are resting-places in recluse situations, rudely covered externally, and 

 within finished with shells, corals, spars, crystallisations, and other marine and mineral 

 productions, according to fancy. To add to the effect, pieces of looking-glass are in- 

 serted in different places and positions. 



