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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 



pleasure it affords to the inhabitant. Creepers 

 of various kinds will adorn the porch, and 

 dress the wall or paling, if such be the fence ; 

 while flowers and shrubs will decorate such 

 part of the ground as can be spared from 

 culinary purposes. The hollyhock, in its 

 varied and luxuriant hues, rising high above 

 the simple fence, and breaking the quiet tone 

 of the building, is peculiarly adapted to such 

 a garden. In fine, the decorations of the 

 various dwellings should appear rather as the 

 result of the feeling of each inhabitant, than 

 as arising from any regular plan of improve- 

 ment. 



One great requisite in village scenery con- 

 sists in trees : indeed, the village is not perfect 

 without such accompaniment. What beau- 

 tiful examples do we occasionally meet with ! 

 — A yew, sheltering with its dense foliage the 

 projecting porch, and relieving by its sombre 

 tone the light and playful creeper which 

 adorns the rustic tracery, — a cypress, or a 

 Virginia cedar, contrasting the horizontal 

 lines of the roof and eaves of the cottage, its 

 head mingling in group with the shaft of the 

 chimneys above. Every opportunity, there- 

 fore, should be taken to enrich the general 



