The American gardener's magazine and register of useful discoveries and improvements in horticulture and rural affairs . style,by introducing into the lawns and gardens the classic vase in its different forms,* and, if thought desi-rable, statues also. They serve as itwere as a connecting link between sohighly artificial an object as a modernvilla, and the verdant lawns and gaygardens which surround it. Elevatedupon pedestals, and placed at suitablepoints in the view—on the parapets ofterraces near the house—before agroup of foliage upon the lawn, andat proper intervals in the garden,they give
The American gardener's magazine and register of useful discoveries and improvements in horticulture and rural affairs . style,by introducing into the lawns and gardens the classic vase in its different forms,* and, if thought desi-rable, statues also. They serve as itwere as a connecting link between sohighly artificial an object as a modernvilla, and the verdant lawns and gaygardens which surround it. Elevatedupon pedestals, and placed at suitablepoints in the view—on the parapets ofterraces near the house—before agroup of foliage upon the lawn, andat proper intervals in the garden,they give a classic and elegant airto the whole, which adds greatly toits value. Beautiful in their forms,contrasting finely with the deep greenof vegetation, and leading the eyegradually from their own sculpturedbeauty to the architectural symmetryof the building, of which they form asit were a continuous though detachedpart, amalgamating it with the groundsin which it is placed—their effect canonly be appreciated beforehand by those who have studied theexcellent effect produced by their introduction into the * The above are copies of two handsome and cheap vases now man-ufactured in New York. Fig. 10 is two feet six inches high, withoutthe pedestal (6), and is formed of plaster or Roman cement (so pre-pared as to withstand the weather), at Coffees manufactory. CanalStreet, New York, where many other fine patterns may be found. The 286 On the Employment of Vases in Gardens. Another reason which may be offered for the mtroduction ofvases into architectural and garden scenery is the gratificationwhich such objects afford to the man of intelHgence and taste. There are, perhaps, few objects,next to the human figure, which af-ford as many interesting historicalassociations as the vase. It may trulybe said to be the first and last pro-duction of the plastic art. The firstutensil formed by man, in the dawnof civihzation in every country, is avessel or vase for holding water ;and
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