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ORNAMENTAL GARDLNING.
This mistake in the public mind, and perhaps the consequent
suspicion of architectural capacity in England, has given eucoit-
ragement to a practice of adopting the edifices of the ancients
for all places and for all purposes, and which is not only repug-
nant to tgood taste, but to common sense, and has allowed the
privileges of the architect (only so by his powers as an artist
and scientific superiority) to any workman who will "' abandon
his mind" to pilfer from Stuart or Degodez, and who will
shamelessly condescend to pile up or crowd together the product
of his larcenies, and call upon the world to admire his ingenuity
in doing so.
Improved knowledge and better taste will not long yield to
such delusions. Let our architects, who have the opportunity,
by the execution of public works display the powers they pos-
sess, in a few real and legitimate works of art, founded on the
principles that have been the objects of their research, and ar-
chitectural felony will cease to be; because the public will no
longer permit themselves to be the dupes ot artifice, and the de-
luded receivers of stolen goods.
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