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garden and grounds of M. Parmentier, near 
Brooklyn, some half a dozen years since, 
during the lifetime of that amiable and zeal- 
ous amateur of horticulture, will readily re- 
[Fig. 86. Prospect-Arbour.] 
member the rustic prospect-arbour, or tower, 
Fig. 86, which was situated at the extremity of his place. 
It was one of the first pieces of rustic work of any size, and 
displaying any ingenuity, that we remember to have seen 
here ; and from its summit, though the garden walks af- 
forded no prospect, a beautiful reach of the neighbourhood for 
many miles was enjoyed. 
Figure 87 is a design for a rustic prospect tower of three 
stories in height, with a double thatched roof 
It is formed of rustic pillars or columns, which 
are well fixed in the ground, and which are 
filled in with a fanciful lattice of rustic 
branches. A spiral stair-case winds round 
the interior to the platform of the second and 
upper stories, where there are seats under the open thatched 
roof. 
On a ferme ornee , where the proprietor desires to give a 
picturesque appearance to the different appendages of the 
place, rustic work offers an easy and convenient method of 
attaining this end. The dairy is sometimes made a detached 
building, and in this country it may be built of logs in a 
tasteful manner with a thatched roof ; the interior being 
studded, lathed, and plastered in the usual way. Or the 
ice-house, which generally shows but a rough gable and ridge 
roof rising out of the ground, might be covered with a neat 
structure in rustic work, overgrown with vines, which would 
give it a pleasing or picturesque air, instead of leaving it, as 
at present, an unsightly object, which we are anxious to 
conceal. 
[Fig. 87. Prospect 
Tower.] 
