THE DEVELOPMENT AND RIPENING OP FRTJIT. 



COTTAGE STABLE. 



BY W. 



Below is the design for a cottage stable, in a very compact and economical 

 form, and yet with not 

 an unattractive exterior. 

 It is 18 feet by 22 feet 

 on the ground. The 

 posts to be 13 feet high. 

 The roof a right angle, 

 projecting the walls one 

 foot. The boarding to 

 be put on perpendicu- 

 larly, with close joints, 

 and battened. A cellar 

 beneath the whole. 



Explanations. — ^, the 

 carriage-room ; B, three 

 stalls for cow, or horse ; 

 C, tool-room, from which 

 is a stairway ascending 

 to the loft ; D, a closet 

 under the stairs for har- 

 ness ; E, barn -yard ; F, 

 entrance to barn cellar, 

 under the passage to the 

 stable-door. A trap- 

 door may be made in the 

 floor of the stalls, by 

 which to convey litter to 

 the cellar. A passage 

 is left open from the tool- 

 room to the cow's stall, 

 which, if preferred, may 

 be closed up. The tool-room will be found a convenient arrangement for any small 

 rural establishment. The whole may be neatly constructed for about two hundred 

 dollars. 



This design is suggested as an economical substitute for the plan presented in 

 the Horticulturist for June. 



WoKCESTER Co., Mo., Juue, 1856. 



Gkound Plan.— 18 by 22 feet. Scale.— 16 feet to the inch. 



THE DEVELOPMENT AND RIPENINa OF FRUIT. 



BY WILLIAM CHORLTON, NEW BRIGHTON, STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK. 



To gain a philosophical conception of this all-important topic, requires an 

 acquaintance with the structure of the plants we have to deal with, and limiting 

 ourselves, for the present, to fruits, we find that the plants which produce them 

 are, with very few exceptions, of the most compound organizations — all being 

 composed of vascular and cellular tissues, and the greater part capable of forming 

 permanent woody fibre. 



It is well known to all vegetable anatomists, that plants are composed entirely 



