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armers. We should be glad if some of our readers 

 vould furnish us a few designs for cheaper houses. 

 This month we present a design, by Mr. Harnky, 

 or a bracketed country house of two and a half 

 tories. It consists of a main body and an L. The 

 nain house is square in plan, and measures 36 ft. 

 •u each side ; the L, containing the kitchen and its 

 iffices, is 18 ft. by 26, and one story and a half in 

 leight. The disposition of the several apartments 

 )f the house is as follows : 



The front entrance porch, ITo. 1, opens into a 

 'estibule, No. 2, 5 ft. by 9. From this vestibule we 

 inter the parlor, No. 3, which is 18 ft. square, and 

 !ontains a good-sized closet. At the further end 

 if the vestibule, a door, the upper panels of which 

 nay be glazed, opens into the staircase hall, No. 4. 

 This hall contains stairs to the chambers above, 

 mder which is a flight leading to the cellar, and 

 jpens into the following rooms : 



No. 5, office or library for the master of the 

 louse, so situated as to be convenient to the door 

 opening upon the recessed veranda. No. 6 ; No. 7, 

 dtchen, 16 ft. square; No. 8, store-room, 7ft. 6 in. 

 )y 8 ft. ; No. 9, pantry, 8 ft. square, containing 

 aump and sink, and leading into the private yard, 

 ^0. 10 ; this yard is to be enclosed by a lattice 

 fence 7 ft, high. 



No. 11, living-room, 15 ft. by 16, containing a 

 large closet, and communicating, by means of a 

 passage way, No. 14, with the family bed-room, No. 

 12. No. 13 is a privy opening into the enclosed 

 yard. 



The second story contains three large chambers 

 and a child's bed-room, besides the hall and several 

 closets in the main body ; and a servants' bed-i-oom, 

 a large clothes-press, and a bathing-room in the L. 

 The third story, or attic, furnishes room for three 

 large bed-rooms and numerous closets. 



Construction. — This house is to be constructed 

 in the same manner as those we have before offered, 

 namely, vertical boarding and battens for the out- 

 side covering, and plain finish, with walls prepared 

 for papering, for the interior. All the lower win- 

 dows of the main part are to be shielded by hoods* 

 12 inches wide. The roof projects three feet all 

 around, and is supported on plain 3^-inch brackets. 

 Height of first story, 10 feet; height of second 

 story, 9 feet. 



The cost of the above house would be from 

 $3,300 to $3,500. 



* In Mr. Harney's de8ign there are two skylights, for partially 

 Dghling the attics. These, and the " hoods" over the lower win- 

 dows, mentioned above, do not appear in the yiew, baring been 

 omitt«d by the engraver. 



OENAMENTAL BEE-HOUSE. 



Springside is a fancy place, and all the buildings 

 are of a fanciful order. The lodge is a gem in its 

 way. The family cottage, the gardener's cottage, 

 the conservatory and grape-house, the carriage- 

 house and stables, the dairy, ice-house, and poultry- 

 houses, are all models of beauty. A bee-house 

 seemed to be wanting to complete the arrange- 

 ments. 



There are various modes of housing the hives. 

 Some are very ornamental, and may be scattered 

 over pleasure-grounds and gardens, in the form of 

 grottos, temples, etc., and thus unite ornament and 

 use. Phklps, in his Bee- Keeper' 8 Chart, says: 

 "Much more depends upon the location of the 

 apiary than most bee-keepers appear to imagine; 

 and even among those who have the preference, 

 there are different opinions on the subject." 



"If we keep bees for ornament," says Quinbt, 

 " it would be well to build a bee-house, paint the 

 hives, etc.; but as I expect the majority of readers 

 will be interested in the profit of the thing, I will 

 say that the bees will not pay a cent toward extra 

 expenses; they will not do a whit more labor in a 

 painted house than if it was thatched with straw." 

 Notwithstanding this high authority, we were de- 

 termined to erect one to correspond with the other 

 buildings on the premises. It was the wish of the 

 proprietor to have something fanciful. Architec- 

 tural, agricultural, and various works on bee- 

 culture, were consulted, without finding anything 

 to suit our purpose. After sketching various forms 

 and plans, the one figured at the head of this article 

 was finally adopted. It is something of the Gothic 

 style of architecture, and is considered a beautiful 

 specimen of an ornamental bee-house. 



The style and external form is pretty well delin- 

 eated in the foregoing sketch. Each wing is 10 ft. 

 long and the front posts 9 ft. high, the rear ones 8 ft. 

 The tower is 6 ft. square — the same width as the 

 two wing rooms, which extend into the tower, 

 making the length of each room 16 ft. Inside, 

 against the front wall, are two shelves, one above 

 the other, extending the whole length, sufficient to 

 accommodate twenty of Phelps' patent hives. — 

 Shelves are also placed in the upper part of the 

 tower, suitable for six more hives. The sides are 

 of inch-and-a-quarter plank, tongued and grooved, 

 and battened. The floor is of hemlock boards, and 



