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story, it renders the rooms of that story 

 more agreeable in the summer season, and 

 protects it somewhat from the violence of 

 storms in inclement weather. 



We have added a piazza or veranda to 

 this house, of the simplest and least expen- 

 sive form, both as giving importance to, and 

 sheltering the front door, and as adding 

 greatly to the beauty and significance of 

 the house as a dwelling. A house in which 

 the front door is bare, is not always easily 

 distinguished from an office or any place of 

 business. The piazza at once designates it 

 as a dwelling house. 



The vertical boarding* represented in 

 fig. 38, we prefer greatly to the siding, 

 which is in almost universal use in New- 

 England. It has an expression of more 

 firmness and durability than the thin siding, 

 and really is much more lasting, warm and 

 efTective, as a protection against the wea- 

 ther. This slender " clapboarding " gives 

 a wooden building a character, perhaps the 



farthest possible from that of the perma- 

 nence and substantiality most befitting a 

 dwelling house. 



The taste that dictates white paint, with 

 bright green blinds, still holds supreme 

 swa}^ over the exterior of the New-England 

 cottage. How much more agreeable to the 

 eye would all these new villages be, if they 

 were toned down, a few shades only, by the 

 admixture of a very little gray, drab, or 

 fawn colour, when these dwellings are be- 

 ing painted. We would not destroy their 

 bright and cheerful appearance — but we 

 would in this way banish the glare and 

 rawness that is, in some of the villages of 

 most recent and rapid growth, really harsh 

 to one's eyes. 



As we remarked, that among the best 

 houses, even in those villages, neutral tints 

 begin to be employed, we hail it as the har- 

 binger of a more enlightened taste in this 

 respect, that will soon pervade the public 

 generally. 



THE RULES OP AMERICAN POMOLOGY. 



In a late number, we called the attention of 

 all persons interested in the production, 

 cultivation, and propagation of good fruit, 

 to the imperative necessity of some reform 

 in the matter of naming, describing and in- 

 troducing new varieties to public attention. 

 We endeavored to point out the perplexi- 

 ty and confusion which had already arisen, 

 and which in the future was likely to be 

 multiplied indefinitely, from the manner in 

 which fruits of little or no merit are brought 

 forward, named and disseminated, to the 

 manifest injury of the public, and the com- 

 plete subversion of every thing like scien- 



* Explained in our Cottage Residences, and the first volume 

 of the Horticulturiit. 



tific precision or correctness in Pomology 

 itself. 



We announce, therefore, with no little 

 satisfaction, that three of our leading hor- 

 ticultural societies — those of Massachti- 

 SETTS, Pennsylvania and Cincinnati — 

 have, since our last number, unanimously 

 adopted a series of Rules for American 

 Pomology. 



These rules, framed very nearly in ac- 

 cordance with the hints thrown out in the 

 article on Pomological Reform, in our Octo- 

 ber nun. -'T, are calculated to stamp a cha- 

 racter of scientific precision and accuracy 

 on the nomenclature and description of 

 fruits, which will make Pomology rank, as 



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