334 LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



sources of the purest enjoyment to the refined minds of the 

 possessors, but would exert an influence for the improvement 

 in taste of every class in our community. The ambition to 

 build " shingle palaces" in starved and meagre grounds, will, 

 we hope, sooner or later, give way to that more refined feel- 

 ing which prefers a neat villa or cottage, tastily constructed, 

 and surrounded by its proper accessories, whether extensive 

 or limited, of verdant trees and beautiful shrubbery. 



It is gratifying to see the progressive improvement in Ru- 

 ral Architecture, which within a few years past, has evinced 

 itself in various parts of the country, and particularly on the 

 banks of the Hudson and Connecticut Rivers, as well as in 

 the suburbs of our larger cities. Here and there, beautiful 

 villas and cottages in the Italian, or old English styles, are 

 being erected by proprietors who feel the preeminent beauty 

 of these modes for domestic architecture. And from the ra- 

 pidity with which improvements having just claims for pub- 

 lic favour, advance in our community, we have every rea- 

 son to hope that our Rural Architecture will soon exhibit 

 itself in a more attractive and agreeable form than it has 

 hitherto generally assumed. We take pleasure in referring 

 to a few of these buildings more in detail. 



Mr. Warren's residence at Troy, N. Y., (fig. 36,) is a very 

 pretty example of the English, cottage, elegantly finished 

 internally as well as externally. A situation in a valley, 

 embosomed with luxuriant trees would have given this build- 

 ing a more appropriate and charming air than its present 

 one, which, however, affords a magnificent prospect of the 

 surrounding country. 



There is scarcely a building or place more replete with 

 interest in America, than the cottage of Washington Irving, 

 near Tarrytown. The " legend of sleepy Hollow," so de- 



