. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book III. CHARACTERISTIC DECORATIONS. 361 lence of the workmanship or the material, as in the fragments of Grecian and Roman sculpture and architecture. This class of decorations is very common in Italy, and espe- cially near Rome and Naples. Viewed as p
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. Book III. CHARACTERISTIC DECORATIONS. 361 lence of the workmanship or the material, as in the fragments of Grecian and Roman sculpture and architecture. This class of decorations is very common in Italy, and espe- cially near Rome and Naples. Viewed as parts of landscape, almost every thing depends on their union with the surrounding scenery. 1841. Rarities and curiosities, like antiquities, possess a sort of absolute value; but the sentiments to which they give rise are more allied to wonder than veneration. They are occasionally introduced in gardening, such as the jaw-bones of the whale, basaltic columns, lava blocks, pillars of earthy rock-salt. The tuffa, corals, and madrepores brought from Otaheite by Captain Cook, as ballast, now form part of the rock work in the Chelsea garden. Chinese rocks, idols, and other Chinese garden-ornaments, are sometimes admitted, not as imitations of rocks or sculpture, but as curiosities. 1842. Monumental objects, as obelisks, columns, pyramids, may occasionally be intro- duced with grand effect, both in a picturesque and historical view, of which Blenheim, Stow, Castle Howard, &c. afford fine examples; but their introduction is easily car- ried to the extreme, and then it defeats itself, as at Stow. In this department may be truly said, after Buonaparte, " Du sublime an ridicule il ny a qu'un pas f" 1843. Sculptures. Of statues, therms, busts, pedestals, altars, urns, and similar sculptures, nearly the same remarks may be made. Used sparingly, they excite interest, often produce character, and are always individually beautiful, as in the pleasure-ground* of Blenheim, where
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