LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 75 



Designs for School Houses, 



artd. ^IcLTis for the. S^ecora.tiorL of tKe. 

 GhrovLThd-s SxcrvoTZThdzTLg . 



The writer of this work makes no pretensions of being an 

 architect, hiivirig studied the subject only in connection with his 

 planting of trees, etc., to make harmony with the surroiindings 

 of the house and its order of architecture, but at the suggestion 

 of the enterprising publisher, and with a desire to do what we 

 can for the public good, we have prepared the following. Our 

 country has passed but a hundred years since its day of freedom, 

 yet the education of those who are to come after us becomes the 

 duty of every parent in the land. 



The school house, yard and grounds, together with the 

 government of the teacher, in a mild yet decided manner, gives, 

 if made pleasant, a desire to the child to go and learn. 



In many of the entirely new sections of the United States, 

 logs can be used, and made even ornamental, for the building. 

 The first settlers of a woody tract have no other resource, but to 

 build log tenements in which to live. 



As we write this the Country Gentleman, a journal of great 

 value, comes to ns, and we venture to take from it an illustra- 

 tion of a log house, with our native wild vines creeping upon it, 

 its dimensions being according to our scale about 16 by 20 feet, 

 which of course can be enlarged. 



