NOTES ON DECORATIVE GARDENING. 
might yet be added -n ithout gi-eat expense by forming tlie pai-apet of wooden trellis-work, the neatness 
of which would accord well with the style of the building, and still more so, if the house happened to be 
finished with a verandah of similar character. When the terrace is of sufficient width to allow of it, 
without appearing to encroach upon its apparent size, a summer-house, as in the sketch, would form a 
characteristic and pleasing terminus at each end ; but such features must not be allowed to crowd the 
residence, as the fii-st quality in a terrace is apparent spaciousness, a character which depends more on 
treatment than even on real space. This terrace, as in the i-ustic example, I have bordered, next the 
parapet, with tui'f, cut into recesses to receive vases containing plants, by which means the vases 
appear to enter into the original plan, p,nd form a necessary part of the composition ; whilst, without 
a framing of that description, such featm-es not only lose great part of theii- importance, but frequently 
appear unwelcome spots intruding upon space to which they do not seem to belong. 
Any vases or ai'chitectural ornaments used to decorate the rustic terrace should be of a corre- 
sponding rustic character ; the outline, No. 1, represents a stand which is now manufactm-ed, and is 
suitable to such a situation, though it is moi'e fi-equently used, without regard to propriety, in places 
in utter discordance with its style. It has the defect also, though pictm-csque, of being a mere crude 
imitation of natui-e, to which obvious and simple process, art should not descend ; but the conti'ast of the 
rough bark and the smooth i-ry leaves is very suggestive ; and I would propose working it into a 
symmetrical form, which should, like all works of art, bear the evident impress of design. The sketch 
