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FIRE BLIGHT IN PEAR TREES. 



DESIGN FOR A SUBURBAN VILLA 



Our Frontispiece represents the elevation 

 and plan of a suburban villa of moderate 

 size, in the Gothic style. It is a design by 

 E. B. Lamb, Esq., an English rural architect 

 of ability, which we borrow with slight mo- 

 difications from Mr. Loudon's Sjipplement. 



In the plan of the principal floor, fig. a, 

 is the porch ; b, the hall ; c, c, corridor ; d, 

 lobby to staircase ; c, staircase ; /, dining 

 room ; g, drawing room ; h, library ; k, 

 open arcade ; I, landing and steps down to 

 the grounds ; m, m, areas ; «, 7i, sunk story, 

 or sloped ground, (concealed by belts of 

 shrubs,) to give light to the basement. The 

 entrance front is at a, the side of the build- 

 ing opposite to that shown in the elevation. 

 The kitchen and other ofiices are in the 

 basement ; and the second, or chamber 

 story, contains six bedrooms. 



The simple elegance and symmetrical 

 proportions of this design, will please most 

 persons at a glance. It appears to us that 

 the arrangement of the central portion of the 

 ground plan might be improved ; and we 

 think both exterior and interior effect would 

 be increased by removing the chimneys 

 and fireplaces from the outside walls, and 

 placing them on the inside walls of the two 

 largest rooms / and g ; that is to say, on 

 the sides of the rooms exactly opposite where 



they now stand. This would be retaining 

 all the heat of the flues in the body of the 

 house ; and it would bring out the two 

 stacks of chimneys at the top or ridge of the 

 roof, which now emerge rather awkwardly 

 at its eaves or lowest portion. 



A villa in this style, as we have before 

 remarked, should never be built of wood, 

 but always of stone, brick painted some 

 agreeable neutral tint, or rough brick and 

 cement. The general character of the 

 building is by no means ornate ; and the 

 ornament, where it appears, is properly 

 introduced ; that is to say, by raising the 

 character of important features, such as 

 doors and windows. The tracery in the 

 windows is florid and handsome ; and this 

 and the mullions should be of carved wood, 

 painted and sanded to resemble stone. The 

 effect of the design would be less rich, but 

 we think not less satisfactory, if window 

 heads of the same form, and a less ornate 

 pattern of tracery, were introduced. 



The general appearance of the opposite 

 or entrance front of this villa, is much like 

 that of the front shown in the elevation 

 here given ; except that instead of the ar- 

 cade, the porch would be the prominent 

 feature of the first story. 



ON THE FIRE BLIGHT IN PEAR TREES. 



BY A. H. ERNST, CINCINNATI, O. 



Dear Sir — The numerous theories and 

 speculations on the Fire Blight in the Pear 

 tree, and its mode of operating, have so of- 

 ten been brought before the public, some- 

 times by our ablest and closest observers in 



luctance I enter the field of controversy. 

 This I do rather as a duty than a choice, 

 and it is with due respect for the views and 

 opinions of those who have travelled in the 

 path of this mysterious agent to discover a 



horticultural economy, that it is with re- 1 remedy, that I dissent from their views. 



