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vases, statues and fountains are to the pa- 

 lace or palace-like mansion. These last 

 indeed are splendid and costly decorations, 

 mid may not without reason be thought to 

 require that the whole should be of the 

 same character ; but there are some^ which 

 appear to accord with every style and scale 

 of houses and gardens. Trellices, with the 

 different plants twining round them, and 

 even the small basket-work of parterres, 

 have a mixture of natural and of artificial, 

 and ©f the peculiar intricacy of each ; of 

 firrfmess and playfulness ; of what is fixed, 

 with what is continually changing. I there- 

 fore regret that fashion has so much ba- 

 nished them from gardens ; but, if I may 

 be allowed to apply, though to a new sub- 

 ject, so very hackneyed a quotation, I will 

 venture to prophecy in Horace s words, and 

 boldly say, 



" Multa renascentur que jam cecidere, cadentque 

 " Qudfe nunc sunt in honore." 



I shall probably be accused by Mr. 



