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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
moderate prices, and which serve to decorate both the 
grounds and buildings in a handsome manner. 
From the Italian style it is an easy transition to the 
Swiss mode, a bold and spirited one, highly picturesque 
and interesting in certain situations. To build an exact 
copy of a Swiss cottage in a smooth cultivated country, 
would, both as regards association and intrinsic want 
of fitness, be the height of folly. But in a wild and 
mountainons region, such as the borders of certain deep 
valleys and rocky glens in the Hudson Highlands, or 
rich bits of the Alleghanies, positions may be found 
where the Swiss cottage (Fig. 45), with its low and broad 
roof, shedding off the heavy snows, its ornamented 
exterior gallery, its strong and deep brackets, and its 
rough and rustic exterior, would be in the highest degree 
appropriate. 
[Fig. 45. The Swiss Cottage.] 
A modification, partaking somewhat of the Italian and 
Swiss features, is what we have described more fully in our 
“ Cottage Residences” as the Bracketed mode. It possesses 
