294 TUANSACTIOXS OF HOYAL SCOTTISH AUBORICULTUKAL SOCIKTY. 



Door Posts. — Outside door-posts will be 6 inches by 2^- inclies, 

 properly batted to the stone-work. Door-frame standards in parti- 

 tions will be 6 inches by 2i- inches, checked 1 inch on back for 

 receiving lath and plaster. 



Grounds. — Window grounds will be 2| inches by 2 inches, 

 checked. Foot-base grounds will be 2J- inches by 1 inch. All 

 external angles will have |-inch corner beads. 



Floors. — The whole of the joisting and sleepers throughout the 

 building will be covered with best quality of white-wood flooring 

 4 inches broad, 1^ inches thick, tongued, grooved, and nailed on 

 feathers, thoroughly stove-dried before being laid, and properly 

 cleaned off after being laid. The hearths to have mitred borders 

 put round them. 



Windoios. — The windows to be framed as shown with 1-inch 

 pulley stiles, l-|-inch lintels, |-inch inside and |-inch outside 

 facings, 4-inch checked, weathered, and moulded sills ; inner edges 

 of sills and lintels to be grooved for finishings, and pulley stiles 

 checked for batten-rods. Sash wood to be 2 inches by 2 inches ; 

 counterchecks If inches, properly checked together. All the Avin- 

 dows, except window of W.-C, to be glazed with the best quality 

 of 21-oz. sheet-glass. W.-C. windows to be glazed with 21-oz. 

 obscured sheet-glass. Pulley stiles to have l|-inch brass-faced iron 

 axle pulleys. Sashes to be hung with patent woven sash line and 

 cast-iron weights. All the windows, except those in jiarlour, to 

 have brass fasteners and lifts, value 2s. per set. The windows in 

 parlour and sitting-room to have bound finishing framing, 3^ inches 

 by If inches. Shutters to be hung with .3-inch D.J. iron edge 

 hinges, to have back closers with cross heads, hung with 2-inch 

 edge hinges, and having hookand-eye fasteners. One .shutter only 

 of the end windows to be hung, and to have back closers Avith 

 hook-and-eye fasteners. The panels of finishing in parlour to have 

 fine raised planted mouldings, those in sitting-room to have fine 

 sunk mouldings. Bedrooms and office windows to have bound 

 shutters 3| inches by If inches, with fine sunk mouldings, and to 

 have back closers with hook-and-eye fasteners. Breasts and elbows 

 to be lined with 3-incli by |-inch tongued, grooved, and properly 

 jointed linings. Kitchen and servant's bedroom windows to have 

 plain shutters formed of 3-inch by |-inch tongued, grooved, and 

 V-jointed linings, with chamfered bars on back, to be hung 

 with 3-inch D.J. iron edge hinges, and to have closers with hook- 

 and-eye fasteners. Breasts and elbows to be lined as specified for 



