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provided: since there are many days in the year when a walk 

 covered overhead, and open on the side to the shrubbery, may 

 be considered as one of the greatest improvements in modern 

 gardens. 



wou 



Id 



e en 



dies 



s 



to describe the various methods of 



attaching such covered passages to a house; and without a 

 plan, as well as drawings, it would be impossible to render the 



subject intelligible. 



To make a house in the country perfect, we must consider 



ouse 



in L 



onaon : an 



it 



in what it principally differs from a 



is to the inconsistency, I might almost say the folly and vanity, 



of transplanting city costumes and fashions into the retirement 



ome re 



of rural life, that much bad taste may be ascribed. 



marks on this subject may not be misplaced, where the comfort, 



convenience, and elegance of habitation, are to be considered. 



First, In magnificent town houses we expect a suite of 



y 



opening by folding doors, for the reception of those large parties 



for assemblies, when th 



e proprietors are driven out of house 



home, to make room for more visitors than their 



can 



contain 



A provision in the country for such an overflow of 



ciety can seldom be required 



> 



and 



pt for 



an 



/ 



ball, the relative dimensions of the rooms should bear some pro- 

 portion to the size of the dining-room, and the number of spare 



bed-rooms 



The most recent modern costume 



is, to use the 



library as the general living-room- and that sort of state-room 

 formerly ealled the best parlour, and of late years the drawing 



room 



generally found 



m 



elancholy 



partment, when 



