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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



moderate prices, and which serve to decorate both the 

 grounds and buildings in a handsome manner. 



From the Italian style it is an easy transition to the 

 Swiss mode, a bold and spirited one, highly picturesque 

 and interesting in certain situations. To build an exact 

 copy of a Swiss cottage in a smooth cultivated country, 

 would, both as regards association and intrinsic want 

 of fitness, be the height of folly. But in a wild and 

 mountainous region, such as the borders of certain deep 

 valleys and rocky glens in the Hudson Highlands, or 

 rich bits of the Alleghanies, positions may h^t found 

 where the Swiss cottnge (Fig. 51), with its low and broad 

 roof, shedding off the heavy snows, its ornamented 

 exterior gallery, its strong and deep brackets, and its 

 rough and rustic exterior, would be in the highest degree 

 appropriate. 



[Fig. 51. The Swiss Cottage.] 



A modification, partaking somewhat of the Italian and 

 Swiss features, is what we have described more fully in our 

 " Cottage Residences" as the Bracketed mode. It possesses' 



