To the man of taste, there is no style which presents greater attractions, being at once rich in picturesque beauty, and harmonious in connexion with the surrounding forms of vegetation. The Grecian villa, with its simple forms and horizontal lines, seems to us only in good keeping when it is in a smooth, highly cultivated, peaceful scene. But the Rural Gothic, the lines of which point upwards, in the pyramidal gables, tall clusters of chimneys, finials, and the several other portions of its varied outline, harmonizes easily with the tall trees, the tapering masses of foliage, or the surrounding hills; and while it is seldom or never misplaced in spirited rural scenery, it gives character and picturesque expression to many landscapes entirely devoid of that quality.
