Book II. 



LAYING OUT COTTAGES. 



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. SuBSECT. 2. Of laying out Cottages* 



3872. Cottage buildings include a variety of habitations from the farm-house down- 

 wards. On a large estate there will be cottages for tradesmen and mechanics, with and 

 without fields and gardens; others for market-gardeners and nurserymen, surrounded by 

 gardens and orchards ; for operative manufacturers; for day laborers ; and on the farm 

 lands near the farmeries, for ploughmen and herdsmen. The extent of ground which 

 ought to accompany these cottages must be determined entirely by the demand ; the re- 

 gular laborer and ploughman require the least ; and the gardener and tradesman^ who 

 keep a horse or horses, and cow, the most. 



3873. A cottage fit for a tradesman, me* 

 chanic, or bailiflf', given in The General Report 

 of Scotland, contains the following accommo- 

 dations : a porch, lobby, living room, two 

 closets with beds, pantry and dairy, fuel and 

 lumber-place, pig, and garden. The cow is 

 kept at the farmery, if for a bailiff; the poultry 

 over the fuel place, and the bees on stands in 

 the open garden. 



3874. j1 double cottage of only onejloor (Jig- 

 475.) contains in each, the kitchen (a), with 

 oven (6), pantry and dairy (c), lobby, (d), two 

 bed-rooms (e,e), entrance door {/), front 

 court-yard (g), pigs (h), necessaries (i). The 

 gardens are at each end, and the cows supposed 

 to be kept at the farmery. 



3875. A cottage on a smaller scale con- 

 tains the entrance and stair, parlor, bed-room with two good bed-rooms over. Behind 



