ADVICE FOR LACKLAND. 



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being a light buff, and the roof red. The effect is 

 exceedingly good though it mixes the rustic and 



more finished work in a way which the professional 

 artists do not venture upon. But I have lived long 

 enough to know that professional traditions in all the 

 arts landscape gardening and architecture among 

 the rest stand in the way of a great many beauties. 

 Every country-place wants its special art-garniture 

 (without respect to traditions) as much as every 

 pretty face wants its special environment of colors 

 and of laces. When, therefore, I hear a man declaim 

 against white gates, or red gates, or rustic gates, or 

 stone gates, per se, without reference to their position, 



