the Country House of Dr. Renton. 



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Plan of the First Floor. 



1, The doctor's study, with a door (a) which opens into the corridor ; and 

 another door (b), leading into the garden from above. 



2, Principal staircase from the ground to the first floor. 



3, 4, Small rooms, each with a window looking into the garden. 



5, Open corridor in front of the drawingroom, leading into the garden. 



6, Small bath-room, over a private staircase leading to the offices. 



7, Small passage leading from the bath-room to the water-closet. 



8, Water-closet. 9, Roofs of the offices, which are on the ground floor. 



10, Drawingroom, with a door («) leading to the garden from above. The 

 other door (b) is the entrance door of the drawingroom : the fireplace (c) has 

 a window above it, commanding a view of the mountains ; d d are windows 

 overlooking the town and the sea. 



11, Inner passage, 12,13, Best bed-room and dressing-room. 



and 40 ft. high ; Persea gratissima (avocado, or alligator pear), 

 trunk 3 ft. in girt, and 40 ft. high ; Gleditsch/a horrida, trunk 

 3 ft. in girt, and 50 ft. high ; Erythrina velutina, trunk 3 ft. in 

 girt, and 40 ft. high, superb when in flower ; young hibiscus 

 heterophyllus, 1 ft. high ; two ik/yrtus pedunculata, large bushes, 

 (Pitanga), 20 ft. high; Magnol/a purpurea, bushy, 12 ft. high; 

 Cookm punctata, trunk 2 ft. in circumference, and 20 ft. high. 

 One side of this terrace is separated from the poultry-yard by a 

 wail and iron railing. This railing is from 30 ft. to 40 ft. long, 

 covered with the climbing branches of a Caesalpm/a S&ppari, 

 planted in the poultry-yard; the trunk of which is only 8 in. in 

 circumference. The flowers, which are in the form of a pyra- 

 midal thyrsus, and of a very shining yellow, are magnificent: the 

 leaves are like those of the acacia. Unfortunately, the branches 

 are covered with thorns as far as the flowers. The seeds are 

 like those of the ricinus, but rounder, and of a darker marbled 

 brown. I have never seen this splendid tree in green-houses in 

 Europe. Its light foliage would form, I think, a very good 

 shade from the sun ; but, no doubt, the thorns would occasion 

 some trouble, as the branches grow very rapidly. Lastly, an 

 immense Erythrina jooianthes, with a trunk 5 ft. in girt, quite 

 bent, and hanging over the wall, concludes the list of trees on 

 this small terrace. 



Above it, there is another larger terrace (e), planted with 

 orange trees (thirty trees), 12 ft. high. Camellm japonica, 

 with single flowers, with a trunk 2^ ft. in circumference, and 



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