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Title: The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste
Year: 1846 (1840s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : Luthur Tucker
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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ow so seldom foundin modern churches. The interior is about thirty by sixty, and will seat comfortably aboutthree hundred people. A large area, dotted with fine trees, beautifully laid out, surrounds the church, and per-fectly completes one of the prettiest pictures of a suburban church to be found in the West. We have spoken of it more in detail than is usual of company operations, because itappears to be the most successful enterprize of this character ever started in this country,and contains some elements of success and judicious arrangement worthy the notice ofothers. With present prospects it seems to combine the long desired object of a home in thecountry with city comforts, and the advantages of free, pure air, no troublesome neighbors,or heavy assessments ; while in front of every residence is a neat little park, or bit of orna-mental planting, which will go far to help the formation of a love for objects of rural taste,and add greatly to the cheerfulness of the heart within.
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The Hefectory. 328 Moyf to Lciy Out Cottage Grotends. How to Lay Out Cottage Grounds. THE design for a cottage upon the opposite page affords, in its description, a favorableopportunity to give some useful hints and suggestions regarding cottage grounds andornamental planting. The plans for the house, and even for laying out the foot-paths, walks, roads, etc., arenecessarily the work of the architect, but the arrangement of the shrubbery, flowers, etc.,are far better attended to by the proprietor himself, who can develop his taste, and add,leisurely, here and there some tasteful touch, or some graceful outline, and fill in one afteranother choice shrubs and climbing vines. This lot may be located either in the suburbs of the city, or in some country village ofconsiderable population—facing the village green perhaps. It is at the intersection of twostreets, and comprises between an eighth and a quarter of an acre, devoted to ornamentalpurposes alone, the kitchen garden and domestic o

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