269 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



SECTION IX. 



LANDSCAPE OR RURAL ARCHITECTURE. 



Difference between a city and a country house. The characteristic features of a country house. 

 Examination of the leading principles in Rural Architecture. The different styles. The 

 Grecian style, its merits and defects, and its associations. The Boman and Italian styles. 

 The Pointed or Gothic style. The Tudor Mansion. The English Cottage, or Rural Gothic 

 style. These styles considered in relation to situation or scenery. Individual tastes. En- 

 trance Lodges. 



" A bouse amid the quiet country's shades, 

 "With length'ning vistas, ever suuny glades ; 

 Beauty and fragrance clustering o'er the wall, 

 A porch inviting, and an ample hall." 



RCHITECTURE, either 



practically considered, or view- 

 ed as an art of taste, is a subject 

 ^\ so important and comprehen- 

 sive in itself, that volumes 

 would be requisite to do it justice. Buildings of every de- 

 scription, from the humble cottage to the lofty temple, are 

 objects of such constant recurrence in every habitable part 

 of the globe, and are so strikingly indicative of the intelli- 

 gence, character, and teiste of the inhabitants, that they pos- 

 sess in themselves a great and peculiar interest for the mind. 

 To have a "local habitation," — a permanent dwelling, that 

 we can give the impress of our own mind, and identify with 

 our own existence, — appears to be the ardent wish, sooner 



