balusters, clustering on the top, and varying 

 the height of the wall in every style and 

 degree that the painter might direct. In the 

 summer, oranges, myrtles, and " each plant 

 of firm and fragrant leaf" would most hap- 

 pily mix with them all; and vases of elegmrt 

 forms, as well as the plants .contained in 

 them, would add to itjhe general richness 

 and variety. 



I will here add, as a (farther lustration 

 of tins subject, that a ba#k in its broken 

 and- picturesque state has the same advan- 

 tage in giving effect to whatever plants are 

 placed upon it, as the ornamented parapet 

 and many other ornamented parts of t&eo}d 

 gardens, and upon ,tjhe same principle. The 

 only difference is, that in the one case every 

 thing is regular ; in the other irregular. A 

 smooth bank, uniformly and regularly 

 sloped, is in ground, what a mere wall is in 

 building; neat and finished, but totally 

 without variety. On the other hand, the 

 overhanging coping, the cornice or mould- 

 ing, projections of every kind with their 

 corespondent &ollow£, answer to the pro- 



