EMBELLISHMENTS. 
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[Fig. 66.] 
always preserves nearly the same appearance. Or 
in place of this, the Yuccas , or “ Adam's needle , 
and thread which have something of the same 
character, while they also produce beautiful heads 
of flowers, may be chosen. Yucca Jlaccida is a 
fine hardy species, which would look well in 
such a situation. An aloe in a common flower 
pot is shown in Fig. 66 ; and a Yucca in an 
ornamental flower-pot in Fig. 67. 
Where there is a terrace ornamented with 
urns or vases, and the proprietor wishes to 
give a corresponding air of elegance to his grounds, vases, 
sundials, etc., may be placed in various appropriate situa- 
tions, not only in the architectural flower-garden, but on 
the lawn, and through the pleasure-grounds in various 
different points, near the house. We say near the house, 
because we think so highly artificial and architectural an 
object as a sculptured vase, is never correctly introduced 
unless it appear in some way connected with build- 
ings, or objects of a like architectural character. To 
place a beautiful vase in a distant part of the grounds, 
where there is no direct allusion to art, and where it is ac- 
companied only by natural objects, as the overhanging trees 
and the sloping turf, is in a measure doing violence to our 
reason, or taste, by bringing two objects so strongly contrast- 
ed, in direct union. But when we see a statue or a vase 
placed in any part of the grounds where a near view is ob- 
tained of the house, (and its accompanying statues or vases,) 
the whole is accounted for, and we feel the distant vase, to 
be only a part of, or rather a repetition of the same idea, — - 
in other words, that it forms part of a whole, harmonious and 
consistent. 
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