Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1874 — Garden and Lawn Ornamentation. [ARTICLE]

Garden and Lawn Ornamentation.

Among those who have given attention to landscape gardening, some are in favor of not only extending the architectural appearance of the dwelling-house to the grounds; in the form of vases, statues, fountains, etc., but also of carrying its spirit into the grounds themselves, by architectural flower gardens, not forgetting sculpturesque-looking plants inclose proximity to the house. The reader must decide for himseli whether, with the exception of a sparing, delicate and graceful distribution of vases, etc., which might be thought to contain enough of the architectural spirit, he would not prefer to the merely architectural flower gardens the green velvet lawn gracefully interspersed with flower beds, borders, flowering shrubs and trees mingled in the grounds in the same spirit- that the real artist paints portions of* the finest landscapes. That the latter is applicable to cottages of simple and unassuming structure, graced with such climbing plants as the twining honeysuckle, sweet-scented clematis, the morning glory, Mexican ivy, etc., and to all pastoral scenes in the immediate neighborhood of dwellings, few will doubt, nor will it be denied that ?ven the modest wild flowers will create more lastingly tender and inspiring emotions than all that art ever has or can accomplish. “The lilies of the field, they grow, they toil pot, neither do they spin, yet 1 say. unto you that Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these.” —Pen and Plou.