LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
Many of the English country places abound with 
admirable specimens of rustic work in their parks and 
pleasure-grounds. White Knight’s, in particular, a resi- 
dence of the Duke of Marlborough, has a number of 
beautiful structures of this kind. Figure 80 is a view of a 
[Fig. 80. Rustic Covered Seat.] 
round seat with thatched roof, in that demesne. Three oi 
four rustic pillars support the architrave, and the whole of 
the exterior and interior (being first formed of frame- 
work) is covered with straight branches of the maple and 
larch. The seat on the interior looks upon a fine prospect ; 
and the seat on the back of the exterior fronts the park. 
There is no limit to the variety of forms and patterns in 
which these rustic seats, arbors, summer-houses, etc., can 
be constructed by an artist of some fancy and ingenuity. 
After the frame- work of the structure is formed of posts 
and rough boards, if small straight rods about an inch in 
diameter, of hazel, white birch, maple, etc., are selected in 
sufficient quantity, they may be nailed on in squares, 
diamonds, medallions, or other patterns, and have the effect 
of a mosaic of wood. 
Among the curious results of this fancy for rustic work, 
we may mention the moss-house — erected in several places 
