Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds . designate a few of the lead-ing points of interest. There is an open lawn, d^ at tliesouth side of the house, to be enlivened by groups of flow-ering shrubs and j^lants, that will contrast agreeably withthe dark verdure of the thicker groups of foliage on theother sides. At « is a rustic pavilion or summer-housi^.Fig. 80, on a knoll slightly elevated above the surroundingsurface. The stable and other out-buildings are located at^, the kitchen garden at 7i, and the orchard at i. Th
Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds . designate a few of the lead-ing points of interest. There is an open lawn, d^ at tliesouth side of the house, to be enlivened by groups of flow-ering shrubs and j^lants, that will contrast agreeably withthe dark verdure of the thicker groups of foliage on theother sides. At « is a rustic pavilion or summer-housi^.Fig. 80, on a knoll slightly elevated above the surroundingsurface. The stable and other out-buildings are located at^, the kitchen garden at 7i, and the orchard at i. The long and intricate walk,j, Avhich may be led atpleasure a long distance beneath the shady, emboweringbranches of tall beeches, stately maples, and melancholypines, now threading little dells filled with mosses andferns, and dark with forest verdure, and again emei-ginginto sunny glades, opened among the forest trees here and COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 163. Fio. 80. there, will be one of the most agreeable features of the place. The greatest charm of this residence, when it is completed, will be the novelty and contrast experienced in coming directly from the highly artificial and populous city, only a couple of miles distant, to its quiet, secluded shades, full of wildness, only sufficiently subdued by art to heighten its natural beauty. The principal difficulty in skil-fully treating a residence like this, to be formed on anentirely new surface, covered with wood, lies in thinningout and opening the wood judiciously—in seizing onthe finer portions to be left, and selecting such as may,with greatest advantage, be cleared aAvay. It must beborne in mind, as we have previously tirged, that fewsingle Wees can be left, but that the thinning must bedone by opening glades boldly, Z;, and leaving thetrees in groups, masses, thickets, and groves. Trimmingup the trees, beyond what is absolutely necessary inremoving dead branches, should never b
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