LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



Designs for School Houses, 



art'/ / J /(ins for ih< decoration of the 



i ; i-on tk! ' s Su rroii n <l i n <j . 



Th<- writer of this work makes no pretensions <>f being an 

 architect, having studied the subject onlj in connection with his 

 planting of • ■ tc, to make harmony with the surroundings 

 of the house ami its order of architecture, hut at the suggestion 

 of the enterprising publisher, ami with a desire to do what we 

 .•an for the public ,L r ""<l. we have prepared the following. Our 

 country has passed but a hundred years since its day of freedom, 

 vet the education of those who are to come after us becomes the 

 duty of every parent in the land. 



The school house, yard and grounds, together with the 

 •_ r "\-ernment of the teacher, in a mild yet decided manner, gives, 

 if made pleasant, a desire to the child to go and learn. 



In many of the entirely new sections of the United States, 

 an be used, and made even ornamental, for the building. 

 The first settlers of a woody tract have no other resource, but to 

 build log tenements in which to live. 



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As we write this the Country Gentleman, a journal of great 

 value, comes to us. and we venture to take from it an illustra- 

 tion of a log house, with our native wild \ inea creeping upon it, 

 its dimensions being according to our scale about U'> ly 20 feet, 

 which of course can be enlarge!. 



