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A VENETIAN TENT.
PLATE XVIII.
A VENETIAN TENT.
THE frame to form the tent and to receive the canvas is
composed of light manufactured iron-work, and suited to receive
decorative foliages which might be trained on wires below the
roof so as to embower the whole without being liable to much
injury when the canvas should be added as exhibited in the
design; and it will be obvious, that a great variety of such
erections may be contrived to suit the same canvas in part or
whole, so as to form with ease and at pleasure, other tents of
various shapes, or the whole erection might be conveniently
removed from place to place, if sockets were properly placed
at chosen situations to receive them; for the parts being con-
nected by screws and nuts, and the awning canvas suspended
by hooks and eyes, it would need but half an hour's employ-
ment to take it down and replace it where required. In summer,
such a temporary retreat is a gratifying appendage to the
house, and affords variety and healthfulness to the amuse-
ments of the day.
THE LAWN.
By the lawn is meant that portion of grass-plat which lies be-
tween the house and the pasture, and which is constantly kept
mown, forming a verdant carpet on which the building stands,
and amongst the improvements that have resulted from the
modern practice of gardening it merits particular notice, for in
small dwellings it is a substitute for the broad gravel or stone
terraces that were formerly adopted, it now receives the inba-
tants from the windows of the apartments; and, in fact, the
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