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decorated in a suitable manner. This is easily and cheaplj 

 effected by placing neat flower-pots on the parapet, oi 

 border and angles of the terrace, with suitable plants grow- 

 ing in them. • For this purpose, the American or Century 

 Aloe, a formal architectural-looking plant, is exceedingly 

 well adapted, as it always preserves nearly the 

 same appearance. Or in place of this, the 

 Yuccas, or " Adam'^ needle and thread," 

 which have something of the same character, 

 while they also produce beautiful heads of 

 rFig.61.] flowers, may be chosen. Yucca flaccida. is a 

 fine hardy species, which would look well 

 in such a situation. An aloe in a common 

 flower pot is shown in Fig. 61; and a 

 Yucca in an ornamental flower-pot in 



Fig- 62. [Fig. 62.] 



Where there is a terrace ornamented with urns or vases, 

 and the proprietor wishes, to give a corresponding air of 

 elegance to his grounds, vases, sundials, etc., may be placed 

 in various appropriate situations, not only in the architec 

 tural flower-garden, but on the lawn, and through the 

 pleasure-grounds in various different points near the house 

 We say near the house,. because we think so highly arti- 

 ficial and architectural an object as a sculptured vase, is 

 never correctly introduced unless it appear in some way 

 connected with buildings, or objects of a like architectural 

 character. To place a beautiful vase in a distant part of 

 the grounds, where there is no direct allusion to art, and 

 where it. is accompanied only by natural objects, as the 

 overhanging trees and the sloping turf, is in a measure 

 doing violence to our reason or taste, by bringing twc 

 objccta so strongly contrasted, in direct union. But when 



