Till-: K()R.\rATrOX op .VliTIKIClAL [>AKl!:S. 

 A TEE, a celebrated writer observes, is " the very 

 life and soul of a garden, whether it be the ground 

 plot of a suburban cottage or the embellished lawn 

 of an extensive villa." This almost indispensable appendage 

 in the composition of scenery has, as yet, attracted but little 

 attention in this country, doubtless owing to the fact that our education 

 has but just conmienced, for the more utilitarian attributes of rural 

 resorting places. A great many dollars are annually expended in con- 

 structing suburban dwellings, and planting grounds with a variety of 

 fruit and urnamental trees ; these are essential requisites to the pleasure 

 of a country life. An artificial lake, or the lesser pond, or even the 

 C0Hr.sing rivulet, is not dreamed of as a conducing feature to the land- 

 scape ; and then another barrief, in unfavorable situations, is the difficulty 

 experienced in procuring a supply of water to meet the contingency of 

 an expanded lake or pond, which, it is urged, decrease rapidly by 

 evaporation in the atmosphere and absorption by tlie earth. That these 

 objections do exist, there is no denying ; but that they are insurmountable 

 we feel inclined to discuss. 



There are very few farms of any magnitude, in this countiy, but which 

 can boast a brook, and not unfrequently w'hat in England would be called 

 a river. The isolated instances in which an abundance of water does not 

 occur in individual domain'-', can in most cases be remedied by that 



