460 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



Fig. 87, which was situated at the extre- 

 mity of his place. It was one of the 

 first pieces of rustic work of any size, 

 and displaying any ingenuity, that wt 

 remember to have seen here ; and fronr 

 its summit, though the garden walks afforded no prospect 

 a beautiful reach of the neighborhood for many miles was 

 enjoyed. 



Figure 88 is a design for a rustic prospect tower of three 

 >,\^ stories in height, with a double thatched 

 roof It is formed of rustic pillars or columns, 

 which are well fixed in the ground, and which 

 are filled in with a fanciful lattice of rustic 

 branches. A spiral staircase winds round 

 [Fig. 88.] the interior of the platform of the second 

 and upper stories, where there are seats under the open 

 thatched roof. 



On a ferme ornee, where the proprietor desires to give a 

 picturesque appearance to the different appendages of the 

 place, rustic work offers an easy and convenient method 

 of attaining this end. The dairy is sometimes made a 

 detached building, and in this country it may be built of 

 logs in a tasteful manner with a thatched roof; the interioi 

 being studded, lathed, and plastered in the usual way. Or 

 the ice-house, which generally shows but a rough gable and 

 ridge roof rising out of the ground, might be covei'ed with 

 a neat structure in rustic work, overgrown with vines, 

 which would give it a pleasing or picturesque air, instead 

 of leaving it, as at present, an unsightly object which we 

 are anxious to conceal. 



A species of useful decoration, which is perhaps more 

 naturally suggested t'^in any other, is the bridge. Where 



