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LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 
fFig. 81.] 
Fig. 81, which was situated at the extre- 
mity of his place. It was one of the 
first pieces of rustic work of any size, 
and displaying any ingenuity, that wi 
remember to have seen here ; and frorr 
its summit, though the garden walks afforded no prospect 
a beautiful reach of the neighborhood for many miles was 
enjoyed. 
Figure 82 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, 
g| which are well fixed in the ground, and which 
are filled in with a fanciful lattice of rustic 
branches. A spiral staircase winds round 
[Fig. 82.] the interior of 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. 
A species of useful decoration, which is perhaps more 
naturally suggested than any other, is the bridge . Where 
