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A SMALL VILLA IN THE TUSCAN STYLE. 



22. Vicar of Winkfield, February 



23. Beurre Easter, March 



24. Beurre Ranee, April and May 



The above, with the exception of 24, 

 which grows well, but does not form a 

 handsome tree, succeed on the quince, and 

 form well shaped, excellent pyramids. No. 

 10 is the Orpheline d'Enghein of Belgium, 

 the Soldat Labourer of France, the Beurre 

 d'Aremberg of most of the collections in 

 England. The true Beurre d'Aremberg, 

 which I have for some years possessed, and 

 which I have again lately received from 

 Belgium, from the garden of the Due 

 d'Aremberg, is of the same race, but the 



tree is more thorny; it has smaller and 

 narrower leaves, and its fruit is rather 

 smaller ; it is a good pear, but certainly a 

 little inferior to No. 10. 



No. 22 is a large second rate pear from 

 walls, or from trees on pear stocks ; from 

 pyramids on the quince here it is not 

 large, but high coloured, and really an ex- 

 cellent late pear ; the tree also is very 

 hardy and bears abundantly. It is very 

 difficult to fix the exact season for the ripen- 

 ing of different pears, they vary so much in 

 different soils and different seasons.* The 

 above will, I think, approach to correctness. 



DESIGN FOR A SMALL VILLA IN THE TUSCAN STYLE. 



The style of this villa is bold and massive, 

 after the manner of the Tuscan composi- 

 tions. 



Perhaps, indeed, the entrance front, 

 shown in out frontispiece, may be consider- 

 ed almost too severe in its character, — a 

 fault better, and much more easily reme- 

 died than the contrary extreme, too often 

 seen, of excessive flimsiness and filagree 

 ornament. To give the front a more do- 

 mestic expression, it would, perhaps, be 

 sufficient merely to add Venetian blind 

 shutters, which are in good keeping with 

 the Tuscan style ; or the Tuscan balcony 

 and overhanging window canopy, may be 

 added to the principal windows, which will 

 at once give a cheerful and lively effect to 

 the exterior. 



The other side of this house is spanned 

 by a veranda, 10 feet wide, which gives it a 

 most comfortable and home-like charac- 

 ter. 



This house is designed for one of those 

 situations common in this country, where 

 the entrance front is opposite to the river 



or the finest reach of landscape. The 

 drawing-room and the veranda are ac- 



Fig. 68.— Second Floor. 



* In 1847, all my late winter pears, such as Winter Nelis, 

 Beurre d'Aremberg, Passe Cotmar, &c. &c 3 ripened in Oc- 

 tober and November. 



