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contrive such a variety of supports or' dif- 

 ferent characters, as may be found in a vil- 

 lage ; or which, if not found there, may al- 

 ways be added to the houses of it A great 

 diversity of sudden and singular projections 

 is to be met with in all old houses that 

 have been added to at different times ; but 

 what I principally allude to, arc porches, 

 of which so many models may be taken 

 both from real buildings, and from pictures. 

 Wherever honeysuckles, vines, jasmines, 

 grow over them, they attract and please 

 every eye ; and the same sort of beautiful 

 effect (not indeed more beautiful) would 

 be produced by the less common exotic 

 elimbers. 



It seldom happens that the taste of the 

 mere collector of curious plants, and that 

 of the picturesque improver, can be made 

 to accord so well as in this instance. Vil- 

 lage-houses generally afford many warm as- 

 pects and sheltered situations, where the 

 less hardy climbers will flourish, and of 

 course a stil; greater number of more ex* 

 posed walls and projections, against which 



