. 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. >G0 SCIENCE OF GARDENING. Part II. Subsect. 3. Characteristic Decorations. 1836. As characteristic decorations are purely decorative, without any pretensions to convenience, they should ever be very sparingly employed, and only by persons of judgment
. 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. >G0 SCIENCE OF GARDENING. Part II. Subsect. 3. Characteristic Decorations. 1836. As characteristic decorations are purely decorative, without any pretensions to convenience, they should ever be very sparingly employed, and only by persons of judgment and experience. A tyro in gardening will be more apt to render himself ridiculous by the use of decorations, than by any other point of practice, and most apt by the use of characteristic decorations. 1837. Rocks are generally considered as parts of the foundation of the earth, and their general character is that of grandeur, sometimes mixed with the singular, fantastic, or romantic. Their expression forms a fine contrast to that of perishable vegetation, and therefore they have been eagerly sought after in gardens, both on this account, and as forming a suitable habitation for certain descriptions of plants. Plant-rockworks are protuberant surfaces, or declivities irregularly covered with rocky fragments, land-stones, conglomerated gravel, vitrified bricks, vitrified scoria?, flints, shells, spar, or other earthy and^hard mineral bodies. Such works are, in general, to be looked on more as scenes of culture than of design or picturesque beauty. 1838. Iloekworks for effect or character require more consideration than most gar- deners are aware of. The first thing is to study the character of the country, and of the strata of earthy materials, whether earth, gravel, sand, or rock, or a mere nucleus of either of these, such as they actually exist, so as to decide whether rocks may, with propriety, be introduced at all; or, if to be introduced, of what kind, and to what extent. Th
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