Hand book of practical landscape gardening, designed for city and suburban residences, and country school-houses . of the i ; i-on tk!s Su rroii n <lin <j. Th<- writer of this work makes no pretensions f being anarchitect, having studied the subject onlj in connection with hisplanting of • ? tc, to make harmony with the surroundingsof the house ami its order of architecture, hut at the suggestionof the enterprising publisher, ami with a desire to do what we.•an for the public ,Lr<l. we have prepared the following. Ourcountry has passed but a hundred years since its day of freedom,v
Hand book of practical landscape gardening, designed for city and suburban residences, and country school-houses . of the i ; i-on tk!s Su rroii n <lin <j. Th<- writer of this work makes no pretensions f being anarchitect, having studied the subject onlj in connection with hisplanting of • ? tc, to make harmony with the surroundingsof the house ami its order of architecture, hut at the suggestionof the enterprising publisher, ami with a desire to do what we.•an for the public ,Lr<l. we have prepared the following. Ourcountry has passed but a hundred years since its day of freedom,vet the education of those who are to come after us becomes theduty of every parent in the land. The school house, yard and grounds, together with the•_r\-ernment of the teacher, in a mild yet decided manner, gives,if made pleasant, a desire to the child to go and learn. In many of the entirely new sections of the United States,an be used, and made even ornamental, for the first settlers of a woody tract have no other resource, but tobuild log tenements in which to live. «srr~^~K-. As we write this the Country Gentleman, a journal of greatvalue, comes to us. and we venture to take from it an illustra-tion of a log house, with our native wild \ inea creeping upon it,its dimensions being according to our scale about U> ly 20 feet,which of course can be enlarge!. 76 HAND-BOOK OF PRACTICAL Such a building as this, placed on dry ground and amid agrove of trees of the native forest, having the old or decayedtrees removed, would be daily visited by the children of aneighborhood for learning and with pleasure, all things consid-ered, as before written touching the teacher. We want no moreuse of the rod, for it is time that intelligence of mind, notpassion, should rule. Leaving this we now give an elevationdesign taken from the Horticulturist of 186H, made by G. , a capable architect. We have changed his ground plan,and made a plan for the planting of an ac
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