RURAL HOME ADORNMENTS. 



The value of everything that approaches the beautiful, is 

 enhanced by an appropriate setting. Even the most beautiful 

 flower of nature is improved by its surrounding of delicately 

 tinted green foliage. The artist, when exhibiting his most 

 perfect artificial representation of nature, places it, if possible, 

 with a surrounding which will measureably attract the eye, and 

 yet cast upon the picture an enhanced breadth and height of 

 coloring, combined with the softness which Nature in her hazy 

 moods gives to all her productions. 



Woman in all her beauty is rendered even more attractive in 

 a setting of appropriate colors and forms of dress ; and woe be 

 to the taste of a blonde who, robing herself in light blue, seeks 

 to decorate for relief with coral ornaments. The opaque red, to 

 use a common phrase, would be ''dreadful" ; while the use of a 

 pale pink would light up and dispel the pallid moonshine of the 

 blue, and give to all a rich, pearly, hazy, rosy hue, as of early 

 mom. 



These lights and shades being Well understood in our 

 artificial "role," it would appear that in the more permanent 

 matters of life, such as the decorations of our daily homes, they 

 should have control ; yet we too frequently find a mansion 

 residence constructed after the best taste and truest principles of 

 architecture, with its surrounding fitting as inappropriate as a 

 bright yellow would be for a lady's walking dress. 



Of the Fine Abts in General and Landscape 

 grakdening in particular. 



There are many amateurs whose minds are open to conviction 

 and inclined to truth, but whose powers of observation are 

 not sufiicient to enable them to discover what is right and 

 appropriate, until it is pointed out to them. 



