. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. FIG. 64. ORNAMENTAL ICE HOUSE ABOVE GROUND. (Horticulturist, Dec. 184fi.) THE. JOURNAL OF RURAL AIT AND RURAL TASTE. Vol. I. DECEMBER, 1846. No. 6. The Ice House and the Hot House, typesof Lapland and the Tropics, are two con-trivances which civilization has invented forthe comfort or luxury of man. A native ofthe Sandwich islands, who lives, as he con-ceives, in the most delicious climate in theworld, and sleeps avva}^ the best part of hislife in that happy state which the pleasure-loving Italians call dolcefar niente, (sweetdo no
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. FIG. 64. ORNAMENTAL ICE HOUSE ABOVE GROUND. (Horticulturist, Dec. 184fi.) THE. JOURNAL OF RURAL AIT AND RURAL TASTE. Vol. I. DECEMBER, 1846. No. 6. The Ice House and the Hot House, typesof Lapland and the Tropics, are two con-trivances which civilization has invented forthe comfort or luxury of man. A native ofthe Sandwich islands, who lives, as he con-ceives, in the most delicious climate in theworld, and sleeps avva}^ the best part of hislife in that happy state which the pleasure-loving Italians call dolcefar niente, (sweetdo nothing)—smiles and shudders when hehears of a region where his familiar treesmus\ be kept in glass houses, and the waterturns, now and then, into solid cold crystal!Yet, if happiness, as some philosophershave affirmed, consists in a variety of sen-sations, we denizens of temperate latitudeshave greatly the advantage of him. Whatsurprise and pleasure awaits the Sandwichislander, for example, like that we experienceon entering a spacious hot-house, redolentof blossoms and of perfwme, in mid-winter,or on refreshing our exhausted frames w
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