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iuii^ of appropriate shrnl:)l)ery, looking in the 

 distance at the setting sun like lofty, white- 

 washed sepulchres. On the other hand, the 

 house may be made dark and damp by over- 

 planting. The house shown in Fig. 30 is a 

 comfortable, fairly attractive stone structure, but 

 is made gloomy and damp by the superabun- 



Fig. 2i>. Euvironment often makes the man. 



dance of evergreen and deciduous trees which 

 fill all the space, barely thirty feet, between the 

 house and the highway. 



The church, as well as the farm house, is or 

 should be the home of the farmer ; but the 

 church, like the individual, may become proud, 

 in which case the old meeting-house is de- 

 molished and replaced by a modern new one, 



