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parture from the ordinary style of building, is soon followed 

 by others ; and the effect is, sooner or later, to create a better 

 taste for architectural beauty, whether that taste be exercised 

 in the construction of an expensive villa, a humble cottage, 

 or a rustic arbor. To break through that style of building 

 which, from its long and continued repetition, is considered 

 by some as the only one at all adapted to domestic uses, re- 

 quires a mind of some courage : but the result will be, if di- 

 rected in good taste, to open new and beautiful forms, and 

 picturesque lines, unappreciated before, because unknown. 



Garden Architecture. 



There is but little new under this head, unless we look 

 abroad, where we shall find that the subject of heating is 

 still one of much discussion. Heating by steam has had its 

 day, — hot water in its various modifications, through large 

 or small pipes, has long been in use, and now the Tank 

 System seems to take the precedency, if we are to judge from 

 what is said in the Horticultural Journals. 



The Tank System is by no means a new or late inven- 

 tion, as we stated last year, (p. 11,) but the recent improve- 

 ments which have been made, are likely to render it well 

 adapted to the purpose of heating. The iron gutters of 

 Messrs. Burbidge & Healy, now in use in several places, 

 particularly at the garden of the London Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, work well, and aflbrd a steady and ample heat. We 

 shall offer an article by our London correspondent on the em- 

 ployment of iron tanks. 



In the fall of 1843, we had a large house; just erected, 

 heated with brick gutters, the construction of which we shall 

 soon lay before our readers. At first the gutters were left 

 open, but the moisture was too great, and yoang cuttings 

 damped off: they were then covered, with thick slate, and 

 no bad effects were then experienced. Its operation the 

 whole of last winter, and the present, thus far, has been sat- 

 isfactory, and for a steady bottom heat, nothing can be better. 

 Our correspondent. Mr. Buist, of Philadelphia, also completed 

 a new house on the tank system; but though we had a 

 promise, we have not yet had the result of the year's expe- 



