The Architectural magazine . namental plant of some sort climbing round it. The housethe most elegantly ornamented with flowers, between ]3ayswaterand St. Pauls, is decidedly No. 5. St. Georges Terrace, Ox-ford Road ; where the wire architraves before mentioned areintroduced, and covered with luxuriant creepers; and the bal-conies of the windows of five stories are richly stocked witligeraniums and other beautiful flowering plants. We concludethis digression by referring to what Leigh Hunt has recentlysaid on this subject, in Nos. 21, 22, and 23. of his London do not expect by this
The Architectural magazine . namental plant of some sort climbing round it. The housethe most elegantly ornamented with flowers, between ]3ayswaterand St. Pauls, is decidedly No. 5. St. Georges Terrace, Ox-ford Road ; where the wire architraves before mentioned areintroduced, and covered with luxuriant creepers; and the bal-conies of the windows of five stories are richly stocked witligeraniums and other beautiful flowering plants. We concludethis digression by referring to what Leigh Hunt has recentlysaid on this subject, in Nos. 21, 22, and 23. of his London do not expect by this article all at once to render foun-tains a popular ornament in town gardens ; but if it should bethe means of introducing only one or two of them in the gardensof those long rows of houses lining the New Road, the KentRoad, and other suburban roads, we shall be satisfied with thebeginning. That this article, and others which have appeared,and which shall appear, in the Gardcnci^s Magazi?te, on foun- in Artificial Stone. ?:- :-?> .<:?; tains, vases, statues, and other architectural garden ornaments,will render them more general in villa gardens round the me-tropolis, and in architectural and flower-gardens in the country generally, we have not a know, indeed, that this hasalready been the result, Mr. Aus-tin having given us the names ofmany places to which he has sup-plied the stonework of fountains ;and Mr. Rowley, the addresses ofabove a hundred noblemen andgentlemen, in different parts bothof Great Britain and Ireland, towhom he has supplied the engi-neering apparatus for such foun-X 2
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