54 OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES. 



your elevations, you want to aim to reduce the ap- 

 parent height ; work in, therefore, as many horizontal 

 lines of decisive color as your exterior carpentry will 

 allow ; give dark hoods, if you will, to your front 

 parlor windows, and let the cornice-finish below your 

 mansard roof reach well down, and carry dark shad- 

 ing. 



" When you are fairly in, I will come and see how 

 you look." 



Lackland's Gardener. 



~YT"T"ITH his grounds laid out and his house in 

 * * fairly habitable condition according to the 

 plans already laid before the reader Lackland holds 

 various consultations in regard to a proper gardener 

 consults as in duty bound, first of all, Mrs. Lack- 

 land. 



Mrs. Lackland wishes an industrious, sober man, 

 who will keep the walks neat and tidy, who knows 

 enough of flowers not to hoe up any of her choice 

 annuals, (whose seeds she dots about in all direc- 

 tions, marking the places with fragments of twigs 

 thrust in at all possible angles) ; she wishes moreover, 

 a good-natured man, who shall be willing to come 

 and pot a flower for her at a moment's notice ; one 

 who will not forget the sweet marjoram or the sage, 



