NEW ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



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window of the front. The windows them- 

 selves, (though this is not so important,) we 

 should prefer to change from the common 

 form, to that of the more expressive and 

 cottage-like latticed sash, as shown in the 

 engraving. 



We think no one can compare these two 

 buildings without confessing that the alter- 

 ation confers a character of taste and pic- 

 turesqueness on what was before a very 

 ordinary and insipid building. The im- 

 provement does not involve any material 

 change in the body of the house itself, but 

 merely in those external parts easily altered 

 and added to. 



Let us add a few words on the details 

 themselves, that we may be the better un- 

 derstood. The roof should project two and 

 a half feet all round the house. This pro- 

 jection is easily made by taking off the sid- 

 ing directly under the eaves of the old 

 roof — introducing pieces of joists as rafters ; 

 upon which, carry out the rafter boarding, 

 and piece out the roof to the necessary 

 breadth. 



The verge boards, or eave boards, (i. e. 

 the ornamental piece running round below 

 the outer edge of the roof,) must be cut out 

 of sound two inch plank. It is the besetting 

 architectural sin of half the carpenters in 

 the country, (and more especially those in 

 New-England,) to make these portions of a 



rural cottage of thin boards. Nothing gives 

 a cottage, otherwise good, such a rickety, 

 paste-board-ish air. The spirit of the carv- 

 ings and ornaments of the gothic villa, of 

 which these cottages are modified forms, 

 is that of elegant solidity — not '^ginger- 

 bread'''' flimsiness. 



The supports of the veranda are simple 

 solid posts or columns, six or eight inches 

 in diameter, left square for base and capi- 

 tal, and hewn to an octagon in the shaft. 

 The arch which runs at the top, from one 

 to the other, is cut from two inch plank. 



Nothing is heavier and less agreeable 

 than the common square chimney. We 

 would therefore advise the owner of figure 

 2, to complete the alteration by adopting 

 the simple form of carrying up distinct flues, 

 standing on a common base, and connected 

 at the top, as we have shown in figure 3 

 The expense is but little more than in the 

 common mode, and the effect far lighter and 

 more agreeable. 



Estimate. — The cost of the proposed al- 

 teration of this house, will vary from S400 

 to S700. The cost of lumber and of the 

 mechanic's labor, varies so widely in tho 

 different States, that it is impossible to give 

 an estimate which will be an accurate one, 

 for any two sections of the country. Where 

 we write, the whole could be completed in 

 a workmanlike manner, for about $550. 



THE TWO NEW ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



Two new ornamental trees have lately 

 made their appearance in our gardens, 

 which are attracting the attention of all 

 amateurs. They both appear to be quite 

 hardy in this latitude, and will undoubtedly 

 add greatly to the beauty of our lawns and 

 plantations. These are the Paulownia, and 

 the Deodar Cedar ; the former, a fine de- 



ciduous tree, with the general habit of the 

 Catalpa ; the latter, a noble evergreen, 

 with the grand character of the Cedar of 

 Lebanon. Some account of each of these 

 trees may be acceptable to our readers. 



The Imperial Paulownia is one of the 

 plants lately brought to Europe from Japan, 

 by Dr. Von Sieboldt, the Belgian botanical 



