. Hints on ornamental gardening : consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railroads, &c., accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture. . ale; for such an edifice, when applied as ornamental chiefly,should be considered rather as a bijou than otherwise, and ele-gance of character be made to supersede the striking and boldeffects necessary to buildings connected with the chief approachto the mansion. When stone quarries are on the estate itself,and th
. Hints on ornamental gardening : consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railroads, &c., accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture. . ale; for such an edifice, when applied as ornamental chiefly,should be considered rather as a bijou than otherwise, and ele-gance of character be made to supersede the striking and boldeffects necessary to buildings connected with the chief approachto the mansion. When stone quarries are on the estate itself,and the charge of distant carriage therefore not incurred, thesebuildings may be erected at a moderate expense, and manyarchitectural beauties introduced that are not within the reachof persons otherwise situated, without a vast expenditure. Theexpense attendant on land carriage, has done more to preventthe use of stone, and consequently the adoption of similar de-signs, than the consideration of the labour necessary to erectthem, united with the additional charge of the material itself:from this cause they have sometimes been built of wood orl)laistcr; and the speedy decay of these have necessarily pre-vented the frequent use of such buildings in landscape orornamental A BmtlDOlE & TEMPIjE Jhib^atS^aanacarys^EPOSlTiyBXiirARTS lai iczs
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