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known writer asked, "What woman would yon recommend I published loug since. Rustic structures are pleasing in recluse 

 me for a wife?" Wo reply as to the summer house what we | portioug of the pleasure ground, if this style be confined to the 



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formation of either a seat or a cottage ; but it is ridiculous if 

 complicated, and elegant forms are constructed of rude mate- 

 rials. Thus we have seen a flower-box, intended to be Etrus- 



can in its outlines, formed of split hazel stakes— a combination 

 of the rude and the refined, giving rise to separate trains of 

 ideas totally unassociable. 



