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arising from the nature of the case, as we have viewed 

 it, that landscape-gardening is closely connected with 

 architecture. The most unpleasant feature of our 

 buildings is their air of defiance of the nature about 

 them; and nothing can make a country house satisfac- 

 tory unless it be harmoniously connected with the 

 landscape of which it is the governing feature. 



110 Teemont Steebt, April 11, 1859. 



