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home. Let US see for a moment, if we cannot embrace other 

 objects and purposes in the design. 



20Ft. 



Our artist will make clearer our ideas by showing a vertical 

 section of a house, say twenty feet wide, and extended to any 

 desirable length. The interior wall may be of boards nailed 

 on both sides of cedar posts, and the middle well filled with 

 dry spent tan bark. A portion of the back roof may be con- 

 structed to raise in sections, for the purpose of ventilation, 

 thus allowing the sashes to be made whole and secured per- 

 manently. The back room to be used for a poultry house in 

 summer, and when the grapery shall be dressed in its snug 

 winter attire, by a door in the partition wall, admit the "bid- 

 dies" to the liberty of the whole house and its pleasant sun- 

 shine. To the middle wall may be trained the peach or apricot 

 and other half hardy trees that are not to be trusted in open 

 culture. This room is the place to start early vegetables for 

 transplanting to open grounds ; and room may be given through 

 the season for quite a quantity of sweet potatoes. Had avc 

 time and tact, it would be a pleasure to us to go more into 

 detail with our ideal structure. ]3ut our mission is ratlier of 



the suggestive. 



C. Chasiberlain, Chaiiynan. 



