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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
broad windows with small lights. Sometimes, the effect of 
this fantastic combination is excellent, but often bad. The 
florid Elizabethan style, is, therefore, a very dangerous one 
in the hands of any one but an architect of profound taste ; 
but we think in some of its simpler forms, (fig. 55,) it may 
be adopted for country residences here in picturesque situa- 
tions with a quaint and happy effect.* 
The English cottage style, or what we have denomina- 
ted Rural Gothic , contains within itself all the most stri- 
king and peculiar elements of the beautiful and picturesque 
in its exterior, while it admits of the greatest possible variety 
of accommodation and convenience in internal arrangement. 
In its general composition, Rural Gothic really differs from 
the Tudor style more in that general simplicity which serves 
to distinguish a cottage or villa of moderate size from a man- 
sion, than inany marked character of its own. The square- 
headed windows preserve the same form, and display the 
Gothic label and mullions, though the more expensive finish 
of decorative tracery is frequently omitted. Diagonal, or 
latticed lights are also more commonly seen in the cottage 
style, than in the mansion. The general form and arrange- 
ment of the building, though, of course, much reduced, is 
* A highly unique residence in the old English style, is Pelham Priory, the seat 
of the Rev. Robert Bolton, near New Rochelle, N. Y., Fig., 56. The exterior is 
massive and picturesque, in the simplest taste of the Elizabethan age, and being 
built amidst a fine oak wood, of the dark rough stone of the neighborhood, it has 
at once the appearance of considerable antiquity. The interior is constructed 
and fitted up throughout in the same feeling, — with harmonious wainscoting, quaint 
carving, massive chimney pieces, and old furniture and armour. Indeed we 
doubt if there is, at the present moment, any recent private residence, even in 
England, where the spirit of the antique is more entirely carried out, and where 
one may more easily fancy himself in one of those “ mansions builded curiously” 
of our ancestors in the time of “ good Queen Bess.” 
