. 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. 564. 6158. Statues, whether of classical or geographical interest (Jigs. 564. and 565.), urns, in- scriptioyis, busts, monuments, &c. are materials which should be introduced with caution. None of the others require so much taste and judg- ment to ma
. 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. 564. 6158. Statues, whether of classical or geographical interest (Jigs. 564. and 565.), urns, in- scriptioyis, busts, monuments, &c. are materials which should be introduced with caution. None of the others require so much taste and judg- ment to manage them with propriety. The introduc- tion of statues, except among works of the most artificial kind, such as fine architecture, is seldom or never allowable; for when they obtrude themselves among natural beauties, they always disturb the train of ideas which ought to be excited in the mind, and o-enerally counteract the character of the scenery. In the same way, busts, urns, monuments, &c. in flower- gardens, are most generally misplaced. The obvious intention of these appendages is to recall to mind the virtues, qualities, or actions of those for whom they were erected : now this requires time, seclusion, and undisturbed attention, which must either render all the flowers and other decorations of the ornamental garden of no effect; or, if they have effect, it can only be to interrupt the train of ideas excited by the other. As the garden, and the productions of nature are what are intended to interest the spectator, it is plain that the others should not be introduced. This reasoning, while on the one hand it shows the absurdity of such a practice, on the other, directs that urns, monuments, &c. should only be placed in solitary unfrequented places, where the mind is naturally led to contemplate, and where the remembrance of the virtues of great men, or the worth of relations now no more, afford proper subjects for contemplation. But even in places apparently sol
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