

DESIGN FOR AN ITALIAN VILLA. 



Princess Alice Maud is moderately growing in favor; is early, handsome, and 

 a fair bearer. 



Large White Bicton Pine bears better crops of rich, handsome fruit, tlian we 

 expected. 



Cornucopia has done much better this year than last. I shall try it further with care. 



British Queen has borne but a small crop of tine fruit under the most careful 

 cultivation of a skillful English gardener in Geneva. At Dr. Hull's it did decidedly 

 better. 



My other varieties have not varied essentially from notes on them in August 

 number of the Horticulturist for 1852. I have seen, during the season, numerous 

 seedlings of others, and raised some myself, but, as yet, am unwilling to take the 

 responsibility of introducing any of them to the public without further trial. My 

 next experiments are for seedlings of McAvoy^s Superior, Large White Bicton Pine, 

 and Walke/s Seedling ; but, of course, the result is very doubtful. 



Errata. — In my communication in the last number of (lie Horticulturist, wh^n 

 speaking of the blossom-buds of the British Queen, bearing on Dr.^IIuLL's grounds, 

 you make me say a quarter of them bore : my notes said, or should of said, the 

 greater part of the blossom-buds perfected fruit. r. g. p. 



DESIGN FOR AN ITALIAN VILLA. 



BY GERVASE WIIEELEE, AKCIIITECT, NEW TOUK. 



This design of a villa suited to the accommodation of a family of liberal mode of 

 living, has been recently erected at Norwich, Conn. Its situation is eminently adapted 

 for the display of architectural beauty, and on account of the commanding prospect 

 enjoyed from the upper windows in the tower, amply justifies the introduction of such 

 a feature in the composition. Its material is brick, dressed with Portland stone ; the 

 roofs are of tin, and the verandas, <fec., of wood. The distribution of the rooms may 

 be understood by an examination of the plans, which provide accommodations on a 

 most liberal scale. 



The principal floor comprises an entrance porch (No. 1), which leads by means of 

 wide doors into the hall (2) of spacious dimensions, in which is contained the principal 

 stairway (3). At the end of the hall is a handsome doorway, with niches on either 

 side, opening into the drawing-room (4), which possesses a charming feature in the 

 shape of a large bay (5), a side-window, which opens into the conservatory (G). 

 No. 7 is the library, a well proportioned room, having a projecting reading-window, 

 with also French windows leading on either side into verandas, marked on plan No. 

 8. The library, it will be seen, contains a large closet. No. 9 is the family parlor, 

 with windows on one side opening to the veranda, and with a projecting window 



g upon a terrace (10). This room conducts, by means of a private lobby, into ^ 

 entrance hall and stairway, so as to afford a retreat for tlie ladies, if surprised by ' 



