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Landscape Gardening 



It is neither from a want of means, or want of time, or 

 any ignorance of what is essential to the beauty of body 

 or of mind, that we see this neglect of the public becoming- 

 ness. There are numbers of houses in all these villages, 

 that boast their pianos, while the last Paris fashions are 

 worn in the parlors, and the freshest periodical literature of 



FIG. 45. GOOD SHADE TREES ON HOMI: GROUNDS 



both sides of the Atlantic fills the centre-tables. But while 

 the comfort and good looks of the individual are sufficiently 

 cared for, the comfort and good looks of the town are sadly 

 neglected. Our education here stops short of New England. 

 \Ye are slow to feel that the character of the inhabitants is 

 always, in some degree, indicated by the appearance of the 



