RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 



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Note. — To readers who desire to cultivate a taste lor rural architecture, we 

 take pleasure in recommending the following productions of the English pres*. 

 Loudon's Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture, a voIum« 

 replete with information on every branch of the subject ; Robinson's Rural 

 Architecture and Designs for Ornamental Villas; Lugar's Villa Archi- 

 tecture ; Goodwin's Rural Architecture ; Hunt's Picturesque Domestic 

 Architecture, and Examples of Tudor Architecture ; Pugin's Examples of 

 Gothic Architecture, etc. The most successful American architects in this 

 branch of the art, with whom we are acquainted, are Alexander J. Davis, Esq., 

 of New York, and John Notman, Esq., of Philadelphia. 



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[Fig. 66. The Gardener's House, Blithewood.] 



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