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COMFORTS AND APPENDAGES. 



If Houses were built only to be looked at, or looked from, the 

 best Landscape-painter might be the best Landscape-gardener ; 

 but to render a place in all seasons comfortable, requires other 



considerations besides those of picturesque effect 



It is during the winter and in the shoo ling season that u 

 residence at Endsleigh will be most desirable; but ihe Climate 

 and Southwestern Aspect of a mountainous district will expose 

 it to the rains, winds, and 



fogs which are the natural 



con- 



comitants of all lofty and picturesque stations. In spring it has 



& 



become a fashion to desert the country, and in summer every 



field is a garden ; but in autumn and winter we 



experience 



e 



truth of a maxim which I have endeavoured to inculcate, and 

 must again beg leave to repeat, that a Garden is a work of Art, 



ture. A well culti- 



making propei 



of the Materials of Na 



vated Fruit-garden requires shelter to secure its produce in 

 autumn, and this same shelter may be extended to the com- 





fort of its inhabitants during that season when a walk along a 

 south wall, while the sun shines, though " ten times repeated," 

 will please more than the richest Landscape in the most ro- 

 mantic country, when stripped of foliage and exposed to driving 

 winds, and covered with its wintry garment of snow. For this 

 reason a Garden becomes the chief Appendage of Comfort, and 

 should never be at a distance ; and though it may be offien- 



