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RUSTIC ORNAMENTS. 
RUSTIC ORNAMENTS. 
The application of rustic work, as it is usually termed, to the 
embellishment of garden scenery, offers to the tasteful fancy an 
almost endless range of subjects, in which ingenuity, aided by 
judgment, may render the tamest scene varied and pleasing. It 
is a means of ornamenting, at once appropriate, easily accom¬ 
plished, and withal inexpensive, and in its working out does not 
necessarily require any extraordinary amount of skill in such 
matters, or the least supervision—any one who can drive a nail 
or use a saw, may accomplish for themselves whatever is desired; 
yet, notwithstanding this simplicity in detail, there is scarcely a 
limit to its appliance, and as a natural consequence, in a subject 
of which thus much may be said, there is abundant opportunity 
as well to err as to improve. Rustic objects may be classed as 
the intentionally artificial, and those which are desired to assimi¬ 
late with the appearance of natural productions ; the first are 
fitting objects for the decoration of cultivated ground only, and 
should be remarkable rather for neatness and finish than aught 
else—among these are the baskets, vases, tables, flower-stands, 
and elaborately-wrought summer-houses, most frequently met 
