Thonger, Charles · London, New York, J. Lane · leaf 114
pening of artificial substitutes for stone,and the introduction of vulgar plaster casts, has led to themost frightful errors being perpetrated in modern gardens.Statuary is used in the most reckless fashion—cupids,floras, and winged mercurys positively elbow one anotheramong the flower-beds, and in… … A SUNDIAL. (Made by Mr. White of Bedford.) SUNDIALS AND STATUARY 75 containing undoubted works of art, is not a picturesquespot, and the way to make successful use of statuary in thegarden is to have as little of it as possible. The vagariesof our climate, too, are all against the adoption of a…
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