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GEOMETRICAL FLOWER-GARDENS. 



refreshing sensation is felt when, wander- 

 ing long amongst trees and verdure, the 

 eye catches the first glimpse of a fine sheet 

 of water. Temples and resting-places 

 may be denominated eye-traps of utility. 



Porches and porticos are often admitted 

 in garden scenery as decorative objects or 

 eye-traps only. These deceptions are, 

 however, not in the most correct taste • 

 for nothing having the appearance of a 

 temple, or house, or place of shelter, 

 that can be approached, should be other 

 Fi 



Fig. 890. 



i 



than what it really professes to be. The 

 falsity of this taste is as great as the dis- 

 appointment would be 

 to those seeking shelter 

 from a storm and find- 

 ^ ing none. That the 

 HI effect of such objects is 

 good when seen from a 

 distance is undeniable ; 

 but they should com- 

 bine the useful at the 

 same time, by having a 

 room behind, as shown 

 in elevation and plan, figs. 889, 890. 



The erections which come under this 

 head should be regarded as permanent 

 and substantial, therefore stone or brick 

 covered with cement should be the mate- 

 rial employed — the former always where 

 the necessary expense can be afforded. 

 Both the design and disposal of them 

 require due consideration, so that every 

 structure of the kind should be in har- 

 mony with the site in which it is placed, 

 else, if executed without taste, or in an 

 inappropriate style, they will appear ridi- 

 culous, and greatly diminish the pleasure 

 with which we view the works of na- 

 ture, aided, as they may be made to be, 

 by the introduction of the works of art. 



Figs. 891 to 896 are suitable buildings of 

 this kind for grounds laid out in the 

 geometric or ar- 

 Fig. 891. chitectural style. 



They are taken 

 from a very use- 

 ful work on " De- 

 signs for Cottage 

 and Villa Archi- 

 tecture," by S. H. 

 Brookes, Esq. 

 Figs. 891 and 892 

 are design of an oc- 

 tagonal pavilion 

 in the plain Greci- 

 an style. That re- 

 presented by figs. 

 893 and 894 is 

 in the same style, 

 only more simple 

 in its character 

 and outline than 

 the last ; while 

 that shown in 

 figs. 895 and 896 

 is a design in the 

 Ionic style, and 

 well adapted for 

 an eminence com- 

 manding an ex- 

 tensive view of 

 the surrounding 

 grounds or dis- 

 tant landscape. 

 They are in a style 

 we would wish to 

 see more generally introduced into plea- 

 sure-grounds of the present day, instead 



Fig. 892. 



of the incongruous andfugacious buildings 

 we occasionally meet with, erected at great 



