AN ENGLISH COTTAGE. 



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the Union, we entirely agree with Mr. 

 Ernst in thinking, that White BelJefleur 

 should be the standard name ; and this for 

 the sufficient reason, that it is easier for 

 the few to adopt a popular and widely es- 

 tablished name than for the many to relin- 

 quish it for one which is to them entirely 

 new. It is on this ground that we adopted 

 the title of Bartlett for the Williams' Bon 

 Chretien pear, in our work on Fruits ; and 

 although many pomologists do not agree 

 with us, and always write of it as William's 

 Bon Chretien, yet from one end of the 

 country to the other, this fruit is and will 

 always be known as the Bartlett. Of 

 course, this rule only applies to the nomen- 

 clature of fruits that are already very widely 

 known by a popular name ; for in all other 

 cases, we would maintain as rigidly as pos- 



sible the uniform and original standard 

 name. 



As we are not able to find Woolman's 

 Long in any European work on fruit, ex- 

 cept the Catalogue of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society, we are still inclined to think 

 this an American fruit, first sent to Eno-- 

 land by Mr. Floy. 



Both as an orchard and table fruit, the 

 White Bellefleur is more generally esteem- 

 ed at the west than here, — bearing large 

 crops of excellent fruit. Mr. Ernst in- 

 forms us that fine specimens were exhibited 

 to the Cincinnati Society this year, as late 

 as June. 



We have already pointed out, (see vol. 

 iii., p. 391,) that the Cumberland Spice is 

 quite a different fruit from the White Belle- 

 fleur. Ed. 



DESIGN AND DESCRIPTION OF AN ENGLISH COTTAGE. 



BY GERVASE WHEELER, ARCHITECT, HARTFORD, CT. 



[SEE FRONTISPIECE.] 



In this country, and especially in some dis- 

 tricts, wood must for many years be used 

 as the material for building. It is this 

 want which has, in fact, given birth to a 

 style almost peculiar to this country ; for 

 nowhere in Europe will be found (excepting 

 in a few solitary instances in the south of 

 England, and in some parts of the neigh- 

 borhood of Nice,) the class of house that 

 abounds more especially in the New-Eng- 

 land states. Thus, whilst this material 

 seems in many instances to be imperatively 

 demanded, it becomes the duty of the ar- 

 chitect to meet the exigencies of the case, 

 and, like a true artist, endeavor to extract 

 beauty from what is given him ; — beauty 

 which shall be the result, as all architec- 



tural beauty must be, of fitness and har- 

 mony. 



Attempts to imitate effect, that can be 

 only produced in stone or other material, 

 in wood, whilst for a short time they may 

 please the vulgar eye, cannot fail at no 

 very distant period to be as unsparingly 

 condemned as they deserve ; and were 

 there not some consolation in the thought 

 that the paltry imitations and ridiculous 

 pretences that disfigure too many of our 

 beautiful sites, cannot possibly last lono- 

 enough in their frailty to outlive the attack 

 that the increase of a purer taste and riper 

 experience are preparing for them, some 

 comment might seem necessary, upon the 

 entire unfitness for the material and failure 



