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be peculiarly adapted to those localities 

 where the scenery was rather sylvan than 

 wild, and on an undulating lawn, stretch- 

 ing away to a broad river or lake, and 

 backed by tree clad hills, would look very 

 well. 



The material might either be entirely 

 stone, or brick with stone dressings ; this 

 latter being a frequent and very appropriate 

 manner of building in this style. 



The windows should be glazed in a 

 manner accordant with the spirit of the de- 

 sign, and the interior of the rooms protected 

 from the heat of the sun by inside shutter 

 blinds, made to slide into the walls, whilst 

 there might be in the drawing and dining- 

 rooms, sliding doors, glazed or otherwise, 

 which could be made to entirely shut ofT 

 the bays, ("the rooms being sufficiently 

 lighted in other ways,) either to contract 

 the size of the rooms in cold weather, or to 

 shade the rooms from the sun in the mid- 

 dle of the day during the summer. 



The inside finish should be carried out 

 with due regard to the detail externally 

 exhibited, and the furniture, without being 

 outre, or possessing any of the absurdities 

 so much of our modern " Elizabethan" fur- 

 niture presents, might be made to harmo- 



nize with the house very readily. The 

 cost of the building would vary from eleven 

 to fourteen thousand dollars, according to 

 the location and price of materials. 



The whole composition is the result of 

 an endeavor to adapt a well known and 

 really beautiful style of the long-gone past 

 to the wants, improvements, and habits of 

 living of the present time. It is not, how- 

 ever, by servilely copying any one speci- 

 men of such a style that the demand in 

 these, our own days, is to be met ; it is not 

 by imitations of battlemented parapets and 

 castellated mansions, with draw-bridge, and 

 portcullis, and moat to boot, — things no 

 longer necessary, and therefore no longer 

 beautiful, in new composition ; the vital 

 element of beauty — fitness, being away. 

 But it is by working out the same unerring 

 principles that governed the productions of 

 an art that obtained such glory in medicEval 

 days, that we must hope in the nineteenth 

 century to succeed in producing results, 

 which to posterity shall be as beautiful 

 and as loved monuments of our artistic 

 achievements as those we now retain in 

 the old world are of those who have gone 

 before. G. W. 



Hartford, May 16, 1849. 



TWO BEAUTIFUL NEW PLANTS. 



Oim enterprising plant-growers have lately 

 introduced from England two beautiful new 

 plants, both of which will no doubt prove 

 perfectly hardy, and very great acquisi- 

 tions to the beauty of our flower gardens 

 and shrubberies. We give brief notices of 

 them now, that our amateur readers may 

 take pains to possess themselves of these 

 charming novelties. 



I. Lady Larpent's Leadwokt — {Plum- 

 VoL. III. 36 



bago LarpentcB.) This is a Chinese plant, 

 growing in low tufts, with numerous stems, 

 and bearing a profusion of clusters of bios* 

 soms of the most exquisite gentian blue 

 colour. The first living plant of this new 

 Plumbago was sent from China to Sir 

 GEoaGE Larpent, who exhibited speci- 

 mens in bloom before the London Horticul- 

 tural Society, in July, 1847. 



Mr. Fortune, the botanical traveller, 



