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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Yases of real stone, as marble or granite, are decorations 
of too costly a kind ever to come into general use among us. 
Yases, however, of equally beautiful forms, are manufactured 
of artificial stone, of fine pottery, or of cast iron, which have 
the same effect, and are of nearly equal durability, as garden 
decorations. 
A vase should never, in the open air, be set down upon 
the ground or grass, without being placed upon a firm base of 
some description, either a 'plinth or a pedestal. Without a 
base of this kind, it has a temporary look, as if it had been left 
there by mere accident, and without any intention of per- 
manence. Placing it upon a pedestal, or square plinth, (block 
of stone,) gives it a character of art, at once more dignified 
and expressive of stability. Besides this, the pedestal in 
reality serves to preserve the vase in a perpendicular posi- 
tion, as well as to expose it fairly to the eye, which could 
not be the case were it put down, without any preparation, 
on the bare turf or gravel. 
Figure 68, is a Gothic, and Figures 69, 70, are Gre- 
cian vases, commonly manufactured in plaster in our 
cities, but which are also made of Roman cement. 
They are here shown upon suitable pedestals — a 
being the vase, and b the pedestal. These with 
many other elegant vases and urns are manufactured 
in an artificial stone, as durable as marble, by Austin 
[Fig. 68.j London, and together with a great variety of other 
beautiful sculpturesque decorations, may be imported at very 
reasonable prices. 
Figures 69, 70, are beautiful vases of pottery ware manu- 
factured by Peake, of Staffordshire — and which may be im- 
ported cheaply, or will be made to order at the Salamander 
works, in New- York. These vases, when coloured, to imitate 
