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country place, and even feels indignant at the suppo- 
sition that he could be guilty of such folly, if he at- 
tempts to make his own place, generally ends by spend- 
ing twice as much. 
We refuse to pay $25,000, and we hug ourselves with 
the idea that our land will cost but $6,000, and our 
house $8,000, and our stable 1,000, and sundries $500. 
But unfortunately these sundries are the rocks on which 
much rural enthusiasm is lost. It is the ice-house and 
the root-house, and the gardener’s house, and the green- 
house, and the grape-house, with the grading and 
road making, and trenching, and digging, and the 
labor necessary to keep these all up, that exhaust both 
our enthusiasm and our purse, and make us see in the 
end what we could not see in the beginning, viz : That 
it is always best to purchase an improved place, or one 
partially improved, than to begin one in the raw. For 
it may be laid down as an inevitable rule, and prevent 
much subsequent disappointment, whenever any im- 
provements at all are contemplated (and it is difficult, 
where we have no amusements or sports, to be contented 
without doing something), to remember one fact, that 
the modern accessories to a country place are at least 
equivalent to first cost of house and grounds — that is to 
say, where the improvements are in keeping with the 
house and place, and continued for a series of years. 
There are two styles of new places most commonly, 
we think, attempted in this country, viz : A place with- 
out any foliage, or possibly a few stunted or unavail- 
able trees, where all the effects are to be produced by 
the spade (in planting) ; and, secondly, a dense wood, 
where the place is to be made mostly by the axe : and 
we propose to illustrate these two schools by giving 
the history of our own residence as a specimen of the 
latter, and “Wellesley,” the residence of H. IT. Hun- 
newell, Esq., near Boston, as a specimen of the former. 
We should, perhaps, mention here, that it is with much 
