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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ October, 
only, leave the planting until the very worst season, but have also to be 
content with inferior plants, which scarcely any after-management, however 
perfect, can make good trees of. All fruit has ripened rather earlier than 
usual this season. Pears and Apples should be gathered most carefully, 
especially the late-keeping sorts, and stored away in the fruit room with 
much care. 
Stourton . M. Saul. 
ARCHITECTURAL AIDS TO GARDENESQUE EFFECTS. 
'HE twin arts of Architecture and Gardening are indissolubly linked 
together. The garden is the lower base of the house, and the house 
should be the crown and glory of the garden. The completion of a 
domain in the highest perfection requires either that the two arts— 
those of house-building and garden-making, should be combined in 
the same individual, or that the two artists—the landscape gardener and 
the architect, should work together. The disseverance of these two has 
marred many a scene of beauty; their combination has moulded into 
harmonious loveliness most of our finest places. When possible the two 
artists should not only work in harmony, but simultaneously. The plans of 
the house, and designs for the garden, should be presented and decided upon 
together. In this way there will be a great saving of time ; the rough ground¬ 
work could proceed with the heavy building, and by the time the house was 
finished, the garden would be furnished. But another great advantage would 
be secured by this simultaneous action. The landscape gardener would be 
more likely to work in harmony and congruity with the architect, when the 
two worked at the same time upon the same place. The proprietor would 
have the advantage of the criticisms of the one, upon the plans of the other, 
and the works of each could hardly fail to be the better for being, to 
some extent, the out-growtli of the genius of both. 
Such simultaneous action might likewise prevent such violent contrasts 
as we often see between the architecture and the landscape. I have seen 
undressed Nature, with her ragged tattered robes of Whin, Broom, and 
Brambles, allowed to approach the highly finished base of an Italian man¬ 
sion ; while far away in some secluded nook, where Nature might have 
been easily wooed, and sweetly enjoyed, I have come upon a highly-finished 
Italian garden, with its imposing statuary, sparkling fountains, and urned 
vases. A good architect would at once reverse such a disposition of artistic 
material, and no landscape gardener conversant with the rudiments of 
architecture, could make such mistakes. In the interests of the highest 
art, I ask that the jealousies that have too long existed between architects 
and landscape gardeners should cease. The latter should yield up to the 
former at] least as much ground as he considers requisite to impart the 
