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country place, and even feels indignant at the Buppo- 

 sition that he could be guilty of such foUy, if he at- 

 tempts to make his own place, generally end& by spend- 

 ing twice as much. 



We refuse to pay $26,000 outright, and -<ce hug our- 

 selves with the idea that our land wilJ cost, but $6,000, 

 and our house $8,000, and our stable $1,000, and sun- 

 dries $500. But, unfortunately, these sundries are the 

 rocks on which much rural enthusiasm is lost. It is the 

 ice-house, and the root-house, and the gardener's-house, 

 and the green-house, and the grape-house, with the 

 grading, and road making, and trenching, and digging, 

 and the labor necessary to keep these all up, that exhaust 

 both our enthusiasm and our purse, and make us see, in 

 the end, what we could not see in the beginning, viz : 

 That it is always better to purchase an improved place, 

 or one partially improved, than to begin one. Fo^ 

 it may be laid down as an inevitable rule, and prevent 

 much subsequent disappointment, whenever any im- 

 provements at all are contemplated (and it is difficult, 

 where we have no amusements or sports, to be contented 

 without doing something), to remember one fact, that 

 the modern accessories to a country place are at least 

 equivalent to first cost of house and grounds — that is to 

 say, where the improvements are in keeping with the 

 house and place, and continued for a series of years. 



There are two styles of new places most commonlj, 

 we think, attempted in this country, viz : A place with- 

 out any foliage, or possibly a few stunted or unavail- 

 able trees, where all the efi'ects are to be produced by 

 the spade (in planting) ; and, secondly, a dense wood, 

 where the place is to be made mostly by the axe : and 

 we propose to illustrate these two schools by giving 

 the history of our own residence as a specimen of the 

 latter, and " "Wellesley," the residence of H. H. Hun 

 newell, Esq., near Boston, as a specimen of the former 

 "We should, perhaps, mention here, that it is with much 



