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slovenly keeping, and a crude and meagre knowledge of 
design in Landscape Gardening. 
Unity of expression is the maxim and guide in this 
department of the art, as in every other. Decorations can 
never be introduced with good effect, when they are at 
variance with the character of surrounding objects. A 
beautiful and highly architectural villa may, with the 
greatest propriety, receive the decorative accompaniments 
of elegant vases, sundials, or statues, should the proprietor 
choose to display his wealth and taste in this manner ; but 
these decorations would be totally misapplied in the case 
of a plain square edifice, evincing no architectural style in 
itself. 
In addition to this, there is great danger that a mere 
lover of fine vases may run into the error of assembling 
these objects indiscriminately in different parts of his 
grounds, where they have really no place, but interfere 
with the quiet character of surrounding nature. He may 
overload the grounds with an unmeaning distribution of 
sculpturesque or artificial forms, instead of working up 
those parts where art predominates in such a manner, by 
means of appropriate decorations, as to heighten by con- 
trast the beauty of the whole adjacent landscape. 
With regard to pavilions, summer-houses, rustic seats, 
and garden edifices of like character, they should, if 
possible, in all cases be introduced where they are 
manifestly appropriate or in harmony with the scene. 
Thus a grotto should not be formed in the side of an 
open bank, but in a deep shadowy recess ; a classic 
temple or pavilion may crown a beautiful and prominent 
knoll, and a rustic covered seat may occupy a secluded. 
