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for example, as the Pillar of Trajan, and that of Antoninus, at 

 Rome, and, in modern times, the Pillar in London, which was 

 erected in 1666, in commemoration of the great fire in that city. 



Such pillars are often erected to the memory of excellent 

 sovereigns, to heroes, and talented statesmen, who were repre- 

 sented either on horseback, or in a standing position at the top 

 of the column. They are often built hollow, with a winding- 

 stair inside, which conducts to a balcony at the summit, from 

 which a fine view is obtained, such as the minarets on the 

 mosque in the gardens at Schwetzingen. Such pillars should 

 always be more than 10 ft. in diameter (including the square 

 stones of which the pillar is composed), so that the winding stair 

 may be ascended with ease. 



There are a great many other symbolical pillars of different 

 forms and intentions, which are more fully treated of in the 

 works of Vignol von Daviler, Dlirand, and many other archi- 

 tectural writings. 



Termes also, and obtuse pillars, should support the busts of 

 celebrated men, and the garden should likewise be ornamented 

 by urns in the beautiful forms of antiquity, placed in suitable 

 situations for them. 



5. The modern garden does not require so many single 

 statues as the ancient geometric garden, where the end of every 

 avenue, every niche, the centre of every square or circular form, 

 or piece of water, had a figure of some kind or another, without 

 particular attention to their execution as works of art, because 

 they were obliged to have so many. Pan reposing on a rock by 

 a brook in a forest, playing on his seven-reeded pipe; a nymph 

 bathing in a stream under an overhanging rock, situated in a 

 recluse and lonely thicket ; a faun espied by a nymph ; all these 

 might certainly be placed in the garden : but all other figures 

 should be either in temples or in other buildings, particularly 

 when they are valuable as works of art; and no statue should 

 be permitted in the modern garden without the situation in 

 which it is placed be particularly adapted for its character, and 

 the statue itself remarkable for its beauty, -iwhich, from the small 

 number required, is not so difficult of attainment as formerly, 

 when so many were in use. 



6. Garden structures should not be limited to the antique 

 Greek and Roman temples already mentioned ; they should also 

 include buildings in the modern style of architecture, when 

 these are in pure and good taste : such as a beautiful triumphal 

 arch as an entrance ; and its decorations and allegories should 

 not be those of Pallas, but of Flora and Diana. 



7. A beautiful rustic house, in which the proprietor can live 

 during the finest months of the year in the enjoyment of nature, 

 is a striking ornament in a garden, particularly when it is of a 



