This design has more of architectural pretension than the "Artist's Villa," given in the last number of the Horticulturist, and it will be recognized as partaking of the character seen in the castles of the Rhine; and therefore will be allowed by the lovers of the picturesque to be adapted to many a site upon the Hudson and elsewhere,- no less fitting for a comfortable American summer retreat It may seem wanting in a veranda, which could be added upon the right, but the trees in many cases would serve for shelter and shade.

This design was also a study for the artist, and the plan will be seen to furnish a similar accommodation. The parts in outline could be added at a future time if other rooms should be required, thus making a very commodious habitation. From the more ornate character of this design, with its multiplied angles, oriel, and battlement, it would not be so easily constructed with the surface rock, and would cause a more elaborate workmanship, and higher cost than the "Artist's Villa," the latter being estimated at three thousand, and the other, upon the same locality, at four or five thousand dollars, with the addition.