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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
or later felt, of every man : excepting only those wandering 
sons of Ishmael, who pitch their tents with the same indiffer- 
ence, and as little desire to remain fixed, in the flowery plains 
of Persia, as in the sandy deserts of Zahara, or Arabia. 
In a city or town, or its immediate vicinity, where space 
is limited, where buildings stand crowded together, and de- 
pend for their attractions entirely upon the style and manner 
of their construction, mere architectural effect, after conve- 
nience and fitness are consulted, is of course the only point to 
be kept in view. There the fagade which meets the eye of 
the spectator from the public street, is enriched and made at- 
tractive by the display of architectural style and decoration ; 
commensurate to the magnitude or importance of the edifice, 
and the whole, so far as the effect of the building is concerned, 
comes directly within the province of the architect alone. 
With respect to this class of dwellings, we have little com- 
plaint to make, for many of opr town residences are highly 
elegant and beautiful. But flow shall we designate that 
singular perversity of taste, or rather that total want of it, 
which prompts the man, who, under the name of a villa 
residence, piles up in the free open country, amid the green 
fields, and beside the wanton gracefulness of luxuriant nature, 
a stiff modern “ three story brick,” which, like a well bred 
cockney with a true horror of the country, doggedly seems 
to refuse to enter into harmonious combination with any other 
object in the scene, but only serves to call up the exclama- 
tion, 
Avaunt, stiff pile ! why didst thou stray 
From blocks congenial in Broadway ! 
Yet almost daily we see built up in the country huge com- 
binations of boards and shingles, without the least attempts at 
adaptation to situation ; and square masses of brick start up 
