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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
SECTION X. 
EMBELLISHMENTS ] ARCHITECTURAL, RUSTIC AND FLORAL. 
Value of a proper connection between the house and grounds. Beauty of the architectural 
terrace, and its application to villas and cottages. Use of vases of different descriptions. 
Sun-dials. Architectural flower-garden. Irregular flower-garden. French flower-garden. 
English flower-garden. General remarks on this subject. Selection of showy plants, 
flowering in succession. Arrangement of the shrubbery, and selection of choice shrubs. 
The conservatory or green-house. Open and covered seats. Pavilions. Rustic seats. 
Prospect tower. Bridges. Rockwork. Fountains of various descriptions. Judicious 
introduction of decorations. 
Nature, assuming a more lovely face 
Borrowing a beauty from the works of grace. 
Cowper. 
Each odorous bushy shrub 
Fenced up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower; 
Iris all Hues, Roses and Jessamine 
Rear’d high their flourished heads between, 
And wrought Mosaic. 
Milton. 
N our finest places, or those 
country seats where much of 
the polish of pleasure ground 
or park scenery is kept up, one of the most striking defects, 
is the want of “ union between the house and the grounds P 
We are well aware that from the comparative rarity of any 
