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means, it unites^ as we before stated, so much of conve- 

 nience and rural beauty.* 



To the man of taste, there is no style which presents 

 greater attractions, being at once rich in picturesque 

 beauty, and harmonious in connexion with the surrounding 

 forms of vegetation. The Grecian villa, with its simple 

 forms and horizontal lines, seems to us only in good keeping 

 when it is in a smooth, highly cultivated, peaceful scene. 

 But the Rural Gothic, the lines of which point upwards, in 

 the pyramidal gables, tall clusters of chimneys, finials, and 

 the several other portions of its varied outline, harmonizes 

 easily with the tall trees, the tapering masses of foliage, or 

 the surrounding hills ; and while it is seldom or never 

 misplaced in spirited rural scenery, it gives character and 

 picturesque expression to many landscapes entirely devoid 

 of that quality. 



What we have already said in speaking of the Italian 

 style, respecting the facility with which additions may be 

 made to irregular houses, applies with equal, or even 

 greater force, to the varieties of the Gothic style, just 

 described. From the very fact that the highest beauty of 

 these modes of building arises from tlieir irregularity 

 (opposed to Grecian architecture, which, in its chaste 

 simplicity, should be regular), it is evident that additions 



* The oniy objection that can be urged against this mode of building, is thai 

 which applies to all cottages with a low second story, viz. want of coolness in 

 the sleeping chambers during mid-summer. An evil which may be- remedied 

 by constructing a false inner-roof — leaving a vacuity between the two roofe of 

 six or eight inches, which being occupied with air and ventilated at the top, will 

 almost entirely obviate the objection. 



In our Cottage Residences, Design II., we have shown how the comfort of 

 a full second story, suiiaUo for this climate, may be combined with the expres 

 won of the English cottage style. 



