LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. 



templation. Most people become indifferent to it, when 

 its novelty is destroyed by daily habit, whereas the 

 annoyances attending the access to an elevated position, 

 which at first seemed a cheap price for the treasure to be 

 secured, are never diminished by repetition. The neces- 

 sity of climbing the hill at every return to the house, in 

 all conditions of weather, through rain and sleet, and icy 

 winds and broiling sun ; whatever the condition of roads, 

 mud or dust, ice or slush; under all circumstances of 

 health and temper; suffering with a headache which makes 

 life a burden ; harassed with petty vexations, or hurried by 

 unexpected necessities which no man escapes, renders it 

 after a time so serious an evil that only the utter hopeless- 

 ness of relief constrains the sufferers to submit in silence. 

 Better by far to select a less commanding position for 

 the house, reserving the summit as an objective point for 

 an evening stroll, when weather and disposition are favor- 

 able, under which circumstances the extended view will 

 never fail to be appreciated and enjoyed. As a matter 

 of taste also in securing the most agreeable aspect of the 

 place from points of approach, the summit of a hill should 

 be avoided as a building site, since a house thus situated 

 has always a bleak, exposed look, especially if seen in 

 who^e or partial relief against the sky, whereas if the land 

 rises in the rear of the house, the summit crowned with 

 wood, and in front assumes the form of a gently sloping 

 lawn, with groups of trees tastefully arranged to prevent 

 the appearance of bareness, the effect will be to give a 

 home-like and attractive expression, which every person 

 of good taste will recognize with pleasure. 



