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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
vation of flowers, or (if the house is not in a very plain 
style, admitting of little enrichment) it may be an archi- 
tectural flower-garden. In the latter case, intermingled 
with the flowers, are to be seen vases, fountains, and some- 
times even statues ; the effect of the fine colors and deep 
foliage of the former, heightened by contrast with the 
sculptured forms of the latter. 
If our readers will now step back a few rods with us and 
take a second view of our villa residence, with its 
supposed harmonizing accessories, we think they can hardly 
fail to be impressed at once with the great improvement 
of the whole. The eye now, instead of witnessing the 
sudden termination of the architecture at the base of the 
house, where the lawn commences as suddenly, will be at 
once struck with the increased variety and richness 
imparted to the whole scene, by the addition of the archi- 
tectural and garden decorations. The mind is led 
gradually down from the house, with its projecting porch 
or piazzas, to the surrounding terrace crowned with its 
beautiful vases, and from thence to the architectural 
flower-garden, interspersed with similar ornaments. The 
various play of light afforded by these sculptured forms on 
the terrace ; the projections and recesses of the parapet, 
with here and there some climbing plants luxuriantly 
enwreathing it, throwing out the mural objects in stronger 
relief, and connecting them pleasantly with the verdure of 
the turf beneath ; the still further rambling off of vases, 
etc., into the brilliant flower-garden, which, through these 
ornaments, maintains an avowed connexion with the 
architecture of the house; all this, we think it cannot be 
denied, forms a rich setting to the architecture, and unites 
