Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds Adapted to North America . lage beyond, which has a separate back entranceleading into the public road. When a place like this occurs, as it occasionally does, in themidst of a more cultivated and less wooded neighborhood, it willbe a delightful surprise, with its highly picturesque air, to astranger entering it for the first time. It will be a much easierplace to render effective than a level plain with few trees, ifwe carefully study the natural expression of the scene, and onlya
Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds Adapted to North America . lage beyond, which has a separate back entranceleading into the public road. When a place like this occurs, as it occasionally does, in themidst of a more cultivated and less wooded neighborhood, it willbe a delightful surprise, with its highly picturesque air, to astranger entering it for the first time. It will be a much easierplace to render effective than a level plain with few trees, ifwe carefully study the natural expression of the scene, and onlyattempt to heighten, not to alter it by our improvements. Inthe wooded walk, which is the principal feature of interest inthis place, there will doubtless be many beautiful wild plantsgrowing naturally. These we should by all means foster, andwe may increase their charm by collecting from other andricher localities all the ornamental indigenous plants, whichmay be made to thrive in such a situation. * A larger plan of a flower garden of this description may be found in ourTreatise on Landscape Gardening. A SMALL COTTAGE, OR GATE Fig 62. Fig 63 COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 143 A cottage in the same style, suitable for a gate lodge for thisresidence, or for a small family. In the opposite illustration, Fig. 61, we have indicated avery simple cottage in the same style as Design VII., whichwould be well adapted for a lodge at the entrance gate b. Inthis situation it would probably be occupied by the gardener,the farmer, or some family in the employment of the proprietorof this residence. When a stranger entered the place, this cot-tage would of course first arrest his attention, and with its oldEnglish, and pretty, rural expression, would serve as a preludeor agreeable preparation for the more varied and extensivecottage of the owner of the demesne. It would otherwise make a neat and picturesque dwelling, ifproperly located, for a small, respectable family, who wish tolead a quiet an
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