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tifijl effect to the landscape, and contributing, also, to the health and 

 comfort of live stock. For instance, a sheep walk, or pasture, situ- 

 ated side of a farmery, may be so planted with scattered groups of 

 oaks, maples, locusts or elms, and clumps of cedars, hemlocks, and 

 pines, as to present all the beauties of the lawn, and, at the same 

 time afford protection to the animals by shelter and shade. By 

 intermingling fruit trees, flowers, and comely shrubs about the garden 

 and hedge rows, with a beautiful fountain of living water in the 

 vicinity of the buildings, will add greatly to the ornament, luxury, 

 and comfort of every farm. 



5. If fancy buildings are to be erected on a farm, different kinds 

 of style may be employed; but in no single building should two or 

 more styles appear. Thus, a Gothic cottage should be purely Gothic 

 throughout; for, a structure of this sort would look exceedingly 

 awkward under a fair-projecting Italian roof In like manner, a 

 Swiss cottage presenting to view Grecian lines and forms, in any 

 way, would be quite as much out of place. As a general rule, how- 

 ever, the appendages, or out-buildings, to a farm-house, should partake 

 of the same architectural character as that of itself; but cases may 

 occur wherein it would be advisable to depart from this rule. 



6. A landscape gardener, possessing a rational and discerning taste 

 in making a design, will adopt such a style as will best produce a 

 scenic effect. For instance, in a situation, backed by a rugged pre- 

 cipice, with straggling hemlocks, or other evergreens near by, 

 approached, perhaps, by a rustic wooden bridge, thrown across a 

 deep ravine, with no other dwellings in sight, a cottage built in 

 imitation of a Swiss hermitage, would form a pleasing variety in the 

 train of ideas that might run through the observer's mind. Again, 

 in a location on a river bank, or hill side, with a dark back ground, 

 and viewed at some distance from before, a structure in the form of 

 a Grecian villa, would produce a desirable effect. 



7. Costly and fantastic ornaments are considered quite out o 

 taste in embellishing a farm cottage. A picturesque neatness and 

 simplicity should be aimed at, rather than whimsical and childlike 

 designs. It is not in good taste to place on buildings of this class, "^ 

 turrets and battlements, in imitation of pointed Gothic and old 

 Scottish baronial edifices; nor to adorn them with painted windows, 

 nor sacred and profane subjects, which can only be associated with 

 tie dark ages of ignorance, sorrow, and oppression. Neither is it in 



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