GARDEN ARCHITECTURE. 
ON THE VARIOUS FORMS AND CHARACTERS OF ARBOURS AS 
OBJECTS OF USE OR ORNAMENT, EITHER IN GARDEN OR WILD 
SCENERY. 
BY R. MALLET, ESQ., OF DUBLIN. 
{Continued from p. 180.) 
There are other walks or berceaux (which may be considered 
merely a sub-species of arbour) similarly covered, in one of which is 
an exquisitely beautiful fountain, called the Bell, from the form in 
which its waters issue ; and issuing, run in a little clear stream, on a 
bright, pebbly bed, along the centre of the walk. 
In another more elaborate, but most tasteless part of this garden, is 
the far-fetched device of an arbour formed of jets d’eau. Surrounding 
an alcove made of agates, lapis lazuli, stained glass, &c., are arranged, 
at the height of about fifteen feet, a great number of leaden figures of 
birds, which, by turning a cock, all forthwith spout out water from 
their beaks into a surrounding basin, so as completely to inclose and 
imprison the party. A scene somewhat similar to this, but on a larger 
scale, also exists in the gardens of the palace of Pratotino, near 
Bologna, or, at least, did exist some time since. These are examples 
of false taste, alone fit to please children, whether great or small. 
The yew was a plant very commonly used for covering treillages, it 
was planted close, and kept clipped, which treatment it bears well. 
At the Borromean Islands, and also at an inn on the Lago di Lecco, 
there are arbours or bowers formed entirely of the roughest masonry, 
of glass-house clinkers, or ascoria; built like niches or semidomes, and 
covered completely on the outside with the various native sedums or 
sempervivium of Italy, some of which grow to a great size, with the top 
of each crowned by a great Agave Americana ; while the whole interior 
was lined by a beautiful coating of that delicate fern the Cheilaenthes 
odora. 
The general effect, although somewhat outre, was decidedly pleasing; 
but what looks not well under such a sun ? 
A singularly beautiful structure, which may be classed with this 
kind of garden decoration, has been made in Ireland. A circular space 
of about sixty feet in diameter, in the centre of dressed ground, with 
scattered clumps of evergreen shrubs, and surrounded by lofty trees, is 
wholly inclosed by a continued arcade of iron arches, each about five 
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