6V. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Not. 





DESIGN FOR A SUBURBAN HOUSE. 



Most persons who transact business in the city 

 would prefer to live a little away from their busi- 

 ness, and from the noise and crowded streets of the 

 city. Pure air, green fields, and the quiet of the 

 country, have a charm for most minds, however im- 

 mersed in the cares of mercantile life, — and mind 

 and body find refreshment and a new tone, by 

 changing from city to country, even if the distance 

 be small. The neighborhood of our cities has been 

 made quite attractive within a few years, by the 

 beautiful style of the suburban houses which have 

 been erected, and the ornamented grounds which 

 surround them, — and while the houses are pleasant 

 to the eye, they combine with their just propor- 

 tions great convenience of arrangement in their 

 rooms, and afford many comforts not included in 

 buildings costingjust as much twenty years ago. — 

 In a climate hke ours, warmth all over the house 

 is desirable, if it can be obtained at a moderate 

 cost, and it is believed that this may frequently be 

 done, and not make the expense more than the 

 usual cost of two or three fires. 



The accompanying engraving has a home-like 

 and inviting aspect, and may afi"ord some person 

 about to build suggestions that are valuable. We 

 are acquainted with many a farmer who is abund- 

 antly able to erect such a house, and whose wife 

 and daughters would preside in it with as much 

 grace as those of any other class ; because such a 

 house would be proper in the suburbs of the city, 

 it does not follow that it would be unbecoming in 

 a thousand places on the farm. We do not mean 

 to urge, however, that it would be the best kind of 

 a house for the farm, where the usual farm opera- 

 tions are to be carried on ; but only this, that there 

 is no good reason why the farmer should not have 

 a house as good as any body, if his means justify 

 it. 



Lime for Preserving Apples. — Will you de- 

 tail the mode of preserving apples by the use of 

 lime ? when and how it is applied — whether slacked 

 or unslacked lime be apphed, and whether the del- 

 icacy of flavor is at all afiVcted bjr its use ? H. 

 ML Fernon, JV. Y. [The effect of lime appears to 



