PARKS AND PLEASURE-GROUNDS. 



the extent and costliness of her parks and houses, a 

 safe example for the American to follow. 



The style of the house for the American park, may 

 be considered with us in two different lights : the 

 first as appertaining to the agricultural proprietor, the 

 second as devoted to country leisure and luxury alone. 

 In the agricultural states, comprising those lying south, 

 west, and nortn-west .of Pennsylvania, the extent of 

 land cultivated and occupied by many individuals, will 

 permit them to appropriate a sufficient space to park 

 purposes to gratify a very considerable ambition, while 

 it may remain devoted to economical uses, and at the 

 same time afford the finest scope for a display of good 

 taste in landscape gardening and building. Such pro- 

 prietors are usually the managers of their own estates, 

 and reside upon them, if not permanently, at least for 

 several months of the year. These are their homes — ■ 

 their places of business. Their habitations are for their 

 business convenience as well as for domestic life, and 

 should be made altogether for everyday purposes. 

 Choosing, therefore, to reside in a park — and which 

 they may do with equal convenience to the manage- 

 ment of their estates as if huddled into close proximity 

 to their cattle-yards or their laborers' quarters — they 

 should consult a due propriety and style of building, 

 within the limits which prudence in the outlay will 

 admit, as much as the richer man of the city who en- 

 joys his park and pleasure-grounds for the purpose of 

 luxury, and lavishes upon them a much larger sum 

 for the gratification of his taste or the display of his 

 wealth. 



In considering the first part of the subject, although 

 it may be a fancy, there is a fitness in the structure 



