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and attention necessary to prevent driving over or against 

 them. It is particularly objectionable, therefore, to 

 place rows or masses of green-house plants, as is often 

 done, on either side of the entrance, which are sure to 

 be more or less injured by hungry horses and careless 

 coachmen. 



And finally, in this country where we have no rural 

 sports as in England, nothing in fact for the amuse- 

 ment of our friends and visitors, except what is beautiful 

 or interesting on our grounds or in our gardens, we 

 have always thought it highly desirable not to tell our 

 whole story from the house, but to set aside in different 

 and distant portions of the place all our objects of 

 interest ; a flower garden in one spot, the vegetable 

 garden in another, an arboretum or pinetum in a third, 

 and so make and multiply as it were, various interests 

 in different parts properly connected, but as widely 

 separated as convenience or space will allow which 

 shall furnish to our guests excuses for a walk, and give to 

 a small place the appearance of a large one ; in other 

 words to afford as much interest and diversion as the 

 capacity of the grounds will allow, and prevent that 

 ennui and fatigue, which nothing to see and nothing to 

 do, produces not only in our visitors, but in our own 

 families. We cannot w^ell imagine anything more 

 dreary than those country places where there is no 

 motive to go out, because everything is gathered and 

 crowded around the house and can be seen from the 

 windows. 



Although we know there is nothing produced without 

 labor, yet it is not pleasant to be always forced to realize 

 it. Repose is, we think, almost as essential to the 

 highest charm of a country place as it is for our own 

 comfort. The clink of the hammer and the sound of 

 the anvil are all very well in their way, yet one does 

 not desire to hear always these evidences of human toil. 

 If therefore we surround our house with a multiplicity 



