PRACTICAL BOOK OF GARDEN ARCHITECTURE 



For some of the flat, evenly covered surfaces, it is 

 a good plan to lay the first course of straw with the 

 butt ends down, to form the eaves, and the other 

 courses are laid with head ends down. For the roofs 

 trimmed in fancy shapes to give the appearance of 

 heavy layers of shingles, etc., each course of straw 

 is laid with heads upward, with the lower ends 

 trimmed evenly. The thick, shingle-like projections 

 extend entirely around the circular roofs, in uniform 

 layers, ending in a tight knob of straw or rope at 

 the peak of the roof. 



For building houses for fancy poultry and dec- 

 orative home aviaries, many country seats show 

 charming little houses roofed with thatch. In pheas- 

 ant yards, for instance, the favorite method of pro- 

 viding shelter for the gay-plumed fowls is an 

 arrangement of long, low buildings extending across 

 the end of the pheasant yard, with the thick, warm 

 thatch not only covering the roof, but also reaching 

 to the ground on the northern exposure, with the 

 sunny southern exposure left open. The larger 

 houses, standing high above the ground, are fre- 

 quently built with bark-covered walls and thatched 

 roofs. 



Finishing the peak of a circular roof, or the ridge 

 of a long building, will call for considerable skill and 

 ingenuity if it is to be strictly water-tight as well 



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