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 V'Jt) COTTAGE, Farm, and villa AllCHITECTLllE. are vines, annually piunud, and the locality is such that grapes will ripen in the open air, the effect is good ; as every one knows who has %valked under such trellises on the Continent. The hardy fruits of Britain, gooseberries, currants, apples, plums, &c., trained on trelliswork, and properly pruned, have a very good effect, and afford convenient modes of eating the fruit from the tree, agreeably to the practice of the pos- sessors of villas in Holland and other places on the Continent. It was also the custom, in the ancient style of gardening, to form skeletons of trelliswork, in the shapes, archi- tectural or sculp • ■'■" t'^"Y" ' ..-', -.^"^"'"^
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tural, into which it was desired to clip the trees or shrubs. The ])Ianls intended to form the fi- gures, statues, or other architec- tural forms, or green walls, be- ing planted with- in the trellis frame, all that the gardener had to do was to cut off such blanches as ob- truded them- selves beyond it. On the whole, trelliswork in gardens is to be considered more with reference to floriculture and horticulture, than to landscape Gardening or Architecture. 1985. Sepul- chral Structures are frequently erected on the grounds of villas. As cenotaphs, or memorials of the dead, and as enclosing and marking, in a particular manner, a place of burial, they are worthy of respect ; but an architectural tomb, in which the remains of liuman beings are built up, and prevented from mix- ing with our inotlicr earth, is a struc- ture indicating a practice altogether unworthy of an enlightened age. Far preferable, in our opinion, was the grave of Thomas Ilollis, Esq., of Cors- coinbe in Devonshire, one of the most worthy and most benevolent of men ; who ordered his body to be buried in one of his fields, and the field to be ploughed immediately afterwards, that the precise place of his interment might not be known. Cenotaphs, which may be considered as monuments, and not as tombs, may often find a place among the architectural decorations of pleasure grounds, and they may vary in magnitude and style, from a simple block or a tablet of stone, to a Grecian teiniile or a Gothic tower. In America, it is very common for families living on their own estates, at a distance from towns, to have their " grave-yards" generally in an orchard near the house. They are simple enclosures, to exclude cattle or other animals, and to convey the idea of consecration. A simple and elegant manner of en-