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and attention necessary to prevent driving over or against 
them. It is particularly objectionable, therefore, to 
place rows or masses of green-house plants, as is often 
done, oil either side of the entrance, which are sure to 
be more or less injured by hungry horses and careless 
coachmen. 
And finally, in this country where we have no rural 
sports as in England, nothing in fact for the amuse- 
ment of our friends and visitors, except what is beautiful 
or interesting on our grounds or in our gardens, we 
have always thought it highly desirable not to tell our 
whole story from the house, but to set aside in different 
and distant portions of the place all our objects of 
interest ; a flower garden in one spot, the vegetable 
garden in another, an arboretum or pinetum in a third, 
and so make and multiply as it were, various interests 
in different parts — properly connected, but as widely 
separated as convenience or space will allow — which 
shall furnish to our guests excuses for a walk, and give to 
a small place the appearance of a large one ; in other 
words to afford as much interest and diversion as the 
capacity of the grounds will allow, and prevent that 
ennui and fatigue, which nothing to see and nothing to 
do, produces not only in our visitors, but in our own 
families. We cannot well imagine anything more 
dreary than those country places where there is no 
motive to go out, because everything is gathered and 
crowded around the house and can be seen from the 
windows. 
Although we know there is nothing produced without 
labor, yet it is not pleasant to be always forced to realize 
it. Repose is, we think, almost as essential to the 
highest charm of a country place as it is for our own 
comfort. The clink of the hammer and the sound of 
the anvil are all very well in their way, yet one does 
not desire to hear always these evidences of human toil. 
If therefore we surround our house with a multiplicity 
