THE KUM-QUAT ORANGE TREE. 



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Boston and New- York. A very simple 

 and excellent mode, where this is not at 

 hand, is to have the roof of the house pinad 

 in its highest part. Over and around this 

 opening, build a ventilator, by erecting a 

 wooden frame about four feet square and 

 three or four feet high, with a roof cor- 

 responding with that of the house, and 

 sides composed of Venetian blinds. Into 

 this ventilator would rise all the air of the 

 garret, as it became heated. But in order 

 to maintain a circulation in still i:, id-sum- 

 mer weather, when the air outside and 

 that inside are nearly the same tempera- 

 ture, there should be two or three air-ducts, 

 or canals, leading from the garret to the 

 cellar, or space under the house. These 

 may be mere wooden boxes, or hollow spa- 

 ces, passing up in the walls of the house, 

 or like flues in the stacks of chimneys, or 

 through closets from one story to the other. 

 In these passages the fresh and cool air 

 will constantly rise, to replace that which 



becomes heated and passes off through the 

 ventilator at the top of the house. 



There should also be an aperture through 

 the ceiling of the hall of the second or 

 chamber story, directly under the ventilator 

 of the roof. Through this the heated air 

 in the upper hall will pass off; and thus a 

 more agreeable temperature will be main- 

 tained in both stories. 



This house, which gives all the accom- 

 modation of many villas at the north, could 

 be built at the south for half their cost, — 

 owing partly to the manner in which the 

 accommodation of the house is increased by 

 enclosing the veranda, and partly to the 

 fact that no filling-in or extra warmth in 

 the wall or frame is required in the south- 

 ern states. 



Comparatively little attention has been 

 paid to tasteful and convenient domestic 

 architecture at the south, and we shall be 

 glad to receive criticisms and suggestions 

 from our southern readers. 



THE KUM-QUAT— A EARDY, DWARF, ORANGE TREE. 



The orange tree, in all its varieties, has 

 hitherto been an exclusively southern luxu- 

 ry, — refusing to grow with us, excepting 

 with protection in winter. 



Here is a little dwarf tree, however, 

 (Citrus japonica,) brought by Mr. Fortune, 

 the collector of the London Horticultural 

 Society from Japan, which will, no doubt, 

 turn out to be quite as hardy as the Wis- 

 taria and the Tree Poeony, and will, there- 

 fore, be a novelty highly useful and orna- 

 mental in our gardens and shrubberies. 

 The fruit, though too acid for the palate, 

 makes a capital preserve; and the juice 

 will doubtless be useful in the same way 

 as that of the lime or lemon. 



We have a small tree growing in our 

 own grounds, which was kindly sent us by 

 Mr. Ranch, exotic florist, near Greenwood 

 Cemetery, Brooklyn. We believe Mr. 

 Buist, of Philadelphia, and probably other 

 nurserymen, now have it for sale, so that 

 amateurs can make trial of it in various 

 parts of the country. There can be no 

 doubt that it will stand the winter without 

 protection wherever that now rather fa- 

 miliar shrub — the evergreen Japan Euony- 

 mus — has proved hardy. 



We quote the following remarks, respect- 

 ing this valuable little fruit shrub, from 

 Mr. Fortune's own account:* 



* Jouruul Loudon Ilort. Society, iii, p. 239. 



