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country place, and even feels indignant at the suppo- 

 sition that he could be guilty of such folly, if he at- 

 tempts to make his own place, generally ends by spend- 

 ing twice as much. 



We refuse to pay $25,000, and we hug ourselves with 

 the idea that our land will cost but $6,000, and our 

 house $8,000, and our stable 1,000, and sundries $500. 

 But unfortunately these sundries are the rocks on which 

 much rural enthusiasm is lost. It is the ice-house and 

 the root-house, and the gardener's house, and the green- 

 house, and the grape-house, with the grading and 

 road making, and trenching, and digging, and the 

 labor necessary to keep these all up, that exhaust both 

 our enthusiasm and our purse, and make us see in the 

 end what we could not see in the beginning, viz : That 

 it is always best to purchase an improved place, or one 

 partially improved, than to begin one in the raw. For 

 it may be laid down as an inevitable rule, and prevent 

 much subsequent disappointment, \vhenever any im- 

 provements at all are contemplated (and it is difficult, 

 where we have no amusements or sports, to be contented 

 without doing something), to remember one fact, that 

 the modern accessories to a country placa are at least 

 equivalent to first cost of house and grounds that is to 

 say, where the improvements are in keeping with the 

 house and place, and continued for a series of years. 



There are two styles of new places most commonly, 

 we think, attempted in this country, viz : A place with- 

 out any foliage, or possibly a few stunted or unavail- 

 able trees, where all the effects are to be produced by 

 the spade (in planting) ; and, secondly, a dense w r ood, 

 where the place is to be made mostly by the axe : and 

 we propose to illustrate these two schools by giving 

 the history of our own residence as a specimen of the 

 latter, and "Wellesley," the residence of H. PI. Hun- 

 newell, Esq., near Boston, as a specimen of the former. 

 We should, perhaps, mention here, that it is with much 



