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these matters, as in all else, and appropriateness must be studied. 

 Here are two suggestive sketches ot the most simple nature. One is 

 a copy of Cotton's Fishing-box near Hartington-on-the-Dove, which 



RUSTIC FISHING-HOUSE. 



we adopted in the embellishment of an island on a good fishing stream 

 in the grounds of an employer ; the other is a boathouse, which has 

 no merit of design, but is placed in just the right spot to render it 

 appropriate and picturesque. 



According to our rule of considering small things equally with 

 great, we will now describe a, well-kept suburban garden of small 

 extent, the hobby of a respected friend ; the length is little moro 

 than one hundred and fifty feet, the breadth forty. From the 

 drawing-room and study windows we look down on the out-houses 

 auxiliary to the kitchen. These are covered with ivy and clematis 

 of many years' growth, and boil over at allcomers with huge tangled 

 masses of glossy foliage and interlaced branches. On the right 

 hand, starting from beneath the roof of clematis, runs a close mass of 

 evergreens, which forms a border winding by a bold curve to a series 

 of flower-borders and parterres. On the left, the garden-wall is 

 covered with old jasmines, almonds, pyrus, clematis, montaua, ivy, 

 and creeper-viue. The border under this wall consists of a few small 

 evergreens, many of them rhododendrons, aud before these stands a 



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