XVI DESCRIPTION OF PLATES AND WOODCUTS. 



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Woodcut 55. Obtuse points of spires .... 340 



„ 56. Monstrous forms of some German spires . . 340 



„ 57. Want of proportion between upper and lower arches 342 



„ 58. Windows of bad form .... 348 



„ 59. Broken pediments ..... 348 



„ 60. Bad taste of Stuart time imitated . . . 348 



„ 61. Facades with the pediment broken up . . 349 

 „ 62. House with the ground sloping towards it ; and the 

 mode of laying out a terrace and garden on the 



same ground when lowered and levelled . . 368 



Plate VI. Fig. la, b,'c, d, e, balustrades of different patterns, most 

 simple in their construction. 



Fig. 2. Patterns of box, with gravel walks between them. 



Plate VII. Fig. 1, a geometrical garden with terrace-walk above, 

 within a stone balustrade, close to which is a border with mixed 

 flowers of various colours. The central part is some feet lower 

 than the terrace-walk, from which two flights of stone steps lead 

 to its walks. In its centre is a vase on a pedestal, or a small 

 fountain. The walks are of gravel, and the beds are edged with 

 box. The sloping sides, e e, are here laid out in a zigzag pattern ; 

 but this may be varied by other patterns, more tasteful and elabo- 

 rate than the zigzag, or they may be planted with mixed flowers of 

 various colours, provided they are low. At each corner is an Irish 

 yew. 



Fig. 2 contains various patterns. The gardens need not be con- 

 fined to the space here given ; and this figure is rather intended to 

 offer a variety of patterns, than the arrangement of a garden, which 

 should have other patterns at the side, between it and the balustrade 

 which surrounds it, as on the left of Plate Tin. at e. In the 

 colour of these Plates, allowance must be made for the false effect 

 caused by the quantity of yellow in the garden walks, which will 

 not appear in the garden itself. 



Plate VIII. gives an arrangement of beds in a geometrical garden of 

 moderate size, which may be extended according to the size of the 

 garden. 



