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cannot pass, are imperfections and falla- 

 cies, the employment of which cannot 

 be recommended ; for, in forming a gar- 

 den, the lovely virtue truth should always 

 be your guide." 



In regard to the employment of arti- 

 ficial decorations, we find the author of 

 " Essays on Landscape Gardening " ad- 

 mitting them fully. " Vases and statues, 

 tastefully disposed about the pleasure- 

 grounds, have a pleasing effect ; and, in 

 extensive shrubberies, the arrangement of 

 statues and busts, if numerous, should be 

 directed by classical taste, that they may 

 be disposed with propriety and truth : 

 no greater absurdity can appear than such 

 decorations indiscriminately mixed, or 

 without literary order." " Classical asso- 

 ciations," Stewart observes, " have added 

 immensely to our national resources, but, 

 at the same time, have warped our taste 

 in various instances," acquiring, as Alison 

 adds, " a superiority over the more per- 

 manent principles of beauty, and deter- 

 mining for a time the taste of nations." 



The style of house with which the pic- 

 turesque in any of its modifications 

 accords best, is that of the cottage ornee. 

 On this subject Brown judiciously re- 

 marks : " Some persons are satisfied if 

 their house and the scenery around it 

 meets with separate approbation ; but 

 such are totally deficient in architectural 

 taste — or rather uninformed as to the 

 general principles which govern domestic 

 architecture in reference to its natural 

 accessories, both immediate and remote. 

 Now, the connection between a house 

 and the adjacent grounds, though not 

 intimate, requires congruity : the charac- 

 ter of the home-landscape with that of the 

 house should therefore accord, and appear 

 as if they were both designed, planned, 

 and planted by one great mas- 

 ter, and severally embellishing 

 and enhancing each other." 



Fig. 982 is an example of a 

 flower-garden adapted to the 

 refined picturesque. The fig- 

 ures are to be cut out of the 

 grass, and the walks to be of 

 gravel. a is a moss-house, 

 having little more than the 

 front seen, the rest being hid 

 amongst the shrubbery; b is a 

 seat. The whole is surrounded 

 by a wire fence, as indicated 



by the outer line. The shrubbery within 

 the fence is planted both for shelter and 



privacy, and need not be constituted of 

 tall trees, but only of laurels, rhodo- 

 dendrons, &c. The outer surface of this 

 shrubbery should be undulated, and 

 gracefully feathering down to the grass, 

 so that no dug border or stems of the 

 shrubs can be seen. In planting the 

 borders, the larger ones may be filled 

 with dwarf shrubs, the others with low- 

 growing flowering plants ; the smaller 

 clumps to be confined to one species and 

 colour only. The situation is supposed to 

 be at some distance from the mansion. 

 Fig. 983 is adapted to a similar situa- 



Fig. 983. 



