The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . agreat deal more to say on the subject in our next Number, when we shallbe able to speak from ptTsonal experience. In the mean time, it may beuseful to inform our readers, that Mr. Perkins has made an arrangementwith Messrs. Walker and Co., of St. Johns Square, Clerkenwell, and putting up his apparatus. — Cond. Geneial Notices. 237 Mr. Austins Works in Artificial Stone.—Our attention has lately beendirected to the many beautiful garden and architectural ornaments whichare now on view at this establishment;
The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . agreat deal more to say on the subject in our next Number, when we shallbe able to speak from ptTsonal experience. In the mean time, it may beuseful to inform our readers, that Mr. Perkins has made an arrangementwith Messrs. Walker and Co., of St. Johns Square, Clerkenwell, and putting up his apparatus. — Cond. Geneial Notices. 237 Mr. Austins Works in Artificial Stone.—Our attention has lately beendirected to the many beautiful garden and architectural ornaments whichare now on view at this establishment; and to an important improvementwhich Mr. Austin has made in the composition of his cement, by whichthe articles formed in it, he says, become as durable as Dumfries stone(Vol. VII, p. 529. 724.), or indeed, any stone whatever. Mr. Austin par-ticularly excels in his designs for fountains. He has lately erected a veryhandsome one, supported by dolphins ; and is now engaged on one, a Gre-cian tazzaof no less than 15 ft. in diameter, supported by lions {fig. 42.),. which would form a noble ornament on a lavra in front of a house. flower-stands and mignonette boxes are excellent articles, and oughtto come into general use in balconies; but what we admire most is thealmost innumerable variety of his ornamental chimney tops and pots, forcottages of every description, and for Gothic or old English villas. Nothingis more wanted in our rural architecture, than to remove the commonplaceappearance of chimney tops. One of the great errors of omission in builderslies in not displaying these characteristics of human dwellings, and one oftheir commonest errors of commission consists in vulgarising them. If ournew Encyclopcedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture does not effect agreat improvement in both these particulars, we shall be very much dis-appointed.— Cond. The Camera liicida, the invention of the late Dr. Wollaston, andmuch improved by Mr. Dollond, is one of th
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