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man's seat, it is by far the most suitable for that of a private 

 country gentleman. No landscape-gardener, however, is equal 

 to the task of doing this properly, who has not an intimate 

 knowledge of the necessary convenience, operations, and 

 practical routine of agriculture. 



The Ma?ior House. — This building, with its " hall of grey 

 renown," requires no particular embellishment from the gar- 

 dener, save what the lord (if he be a resident) or his agent 

 may wish, to distinguish it from the farm-houses around. If 

 it has no old marks of superiority about itself, a few groups 

 of conspicuous trees, planted near it, will sufficiently answer 

 the purpose. 



77ie Himting Box. — This is erected on manors, or portions 

 of the estate at a distance from the principal seat. Intended 

 as an occasional residence, the house itself is small, but with 

 ample additions of stabling, kennels, boiling-houses, &c. The 

 pasture ground is divided into paddocks, diverging from ex- 

 tensive circular sheds or hovels near the stables, for the con- 

 venience of turniuff out and feedino- the stud. The fences 

 between the paddocks should be high and thick hedges. 

 Several clumps of shady trees should be planted in each 

 paddock, and supplied with water, either in ponds or troughs. 



The Rural Villa. — These dwellings appear in the neigh- 

 bourhood of country villages. Placed near the end of a 

 square meadow, a little dressed ground for shrubs and flowers 

 in front, a garden and meadow behind, surrounded by a 

 planted walk of trees and shrubs, in a belt within the outer 

 fence, completes the place. 



Tovon Villas resemble the foregoing, only the house is 

 larger, and the premises are surrounded by walls and iron 

 palisades. The disposition of the interior is more a work of 

 fancy than of taste. 



Ornamental Cottages. — Much of " this kind of thing" is 

 done in all parts of the country. All the extravagances of 

 fancy and whimsical conceit, are exercised in torturing costly 

 materials into all the accidentally rude members of the poor 

 man's hut. The gaudy colours, and fantastic forms, with 

 which some of these erections ai-e bedizened, seem to be nothing 

 more than the romantic devices of a citoyenelle. Muslin or 

 silken curtains, flapping through the lattice-glazed window, 

 plastic figures from the antique, and the most valuable exotic 

 shrubs grace the little lawn ; a Grecian or Gothic portico 

 screens the front door, while the rats and sparrows are nestling 

 in the frowning thatch. Rational taste is not wanted, and 

 very seldom consulted in such affairs ; still castellated cottages 



