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GEOMETRICAL FLOWER-GARDENS. 



columns of marble, or engraved on trees, 

 or rocks ; such sentences being always 

 chosen for them as correspond with the 

 scene of the inscriptions, which thereby 

 acquire additional force in themselves, 

 and likewise give a stronger expression to 

 the scene." 



Busts and Pedestals. — Busts, when 

 placed on appropriate pedestals, become, 

 as it were, connected with statues, and 

 their disposal will be governed by the 

 same rules. They are, perhaps, more 

 appropriate appendages to the walls of a 

 house, or for niches in the walls. They 

 are sometimes, however, placed on pedes- 

 tals along the sides of walks, as at the 

 grounds at Stoke Park, long the residence 

 of the descendants of the celebrated Wil- 

 liam Penn; and on some places on the Con- 

 tinent, such as that of the Baron Joseph 

 D'Hoogvorst, at Limmal, near Brussels, 

 and elsewhere, where taste for this kind 

 of decoration seems greater than with us. 



The grounds at Stoke were originally 

 laid out in the geometric style, and in 

 accordance with the original mansion, 

 which was considered as one of the best 



Elizabethan houses in England. The 

 present house is in the Grecian style, and 

 the grounds are completely changed, and 

 laid out in what may be called the classi- 

 cal style of the poet Mason ; the forms 

 of the masses of shrubs and flower-beds 

 being chiefly circular or elliptical, and 

 each seems distinguished by appropri- 

 ate statues or busts placed on pedestals 

 or therms. They are, no doubt, good 

 likenesses of the great men they repre- 

 sent ; but for the edification of those who 

 had not a personal acquaintance with 

 them, in general (or at least they did 

 some years ago) they carry their names 

 attached to them. 



§ 5. — SEATS. 



These, if of architectural forms, are 

 admissible in gardens of the geometrical 

 stvle, both as being ornamental and useful. 



"The chairs, of which figs. 881, 882, 883 

 are examples, are from designs furnished 

 by the celebrated Professor HeidelofF to 

 the "Art Union of London," and form 

 part of a stupendous work preparing by 



Fig. 882. 



Fig. 883. 



him, illustrative of the ancient designs in 

 Germany. 



We have selected these subjects from 

 the rich collection of Professor HeidelofF, 

 not that they are by any means the finest 

 specimens of his research, as they are, 

 for the most part, intended for mansion 

 decoration. Those we have chosen are, 

 however, adapted to garden purposes, and 

 being of simple Gothic forms, are of easy 

 execution, and could be made at little 

 expense, now that the process of wood- 

 carving is so easily applicable to curved 



lines. Nor would it be difficult, if desir- 

 able, to cut them in stone. 



Cast-iron chairs, both architectural and 

 artistical, as figs. 884, 885, 886, are also 



