Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds . Figs. 104 and 155. COTTAGE UESIDENCES. 243 SUGGESTIONS CONCERNING ITALIAN GARDENS. BY IIENEr WINTHROP SARGENT, ESQ. TirERE is hardly any improvement in the adormnent ofcountiy places, within the last few years, more effectivethan what are called in England Italian gardens. Souniversally popular is this new accession to a house ofany pretension, that there are more Italian gardens inEngland than in Italy itself. There is seldom a place, large or small, but what hasthis new and very
Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds . Figs. 104 and 155. COTTAGE UESIDENCES. 243 SUGGESTIONS CONCERNING ITALIAN GARDENS. BY IIENEr WINTHROP SARGENT, ESQ. TirERE is hardly any improvement in the adormnent ofcountiy places, within the last few years, more effectivethan what are called in England Italian gardens. Souniversally popular is this new accession to a house ofany pretension, that there are more Italian gardens inEngland than in Italy itself. There is seldom a place, large or small, but what hasthis new and very chaiming feature attached to one sideof it. And, in fact, tlie present fashion of ribbon gardensseems peculiarly adapted to the long, stately teiTaces andformal figures—parterres of embroideiy set in stone orbox and surmounted by balustrades and vases, somewhatin the style of the annexed view of a small garden of thisdescription at Wodenethe, on the Hudson, as also at JudgeMonells, in the same ueigborhood. An English place, as a general rule, consists, first, of itspark, the outer ])ortion of which is ofte
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