'210 Quick Thatoing. 



consequence marred to a certain degree when backed by a steep 

 pitched roof. The other appendages to the elevation are oriel win- 

 dow, dormer window, and a railed window over the principal door- 

 way, operating as a protection to the entrance, and also giving it 

 an appearance of elaborate finish without the expense incurred by 

 the reality of such actual completeness. 



Accommodations. — The basement contains a large and commodious 

 kitchen, lTxl3, in direct communication with a capacious store 

 room, 14x6, vegetable room, 11x14, and coal cellar, 7x10. On the 

 opposite side of the lobby or hall is a laundry, 11x13, and closet, 

 5x7. These rooms are all of easy and convenient access. From 

 the lobby a staircase communicates with the principal floor above. 

 A hall is first entered, 18x6 ; from the hall you reach a dining 

 apartment, 18x15, drawing room, 15x20, library, 12x14, vestibule, 

 5x6. Oif the dining-room is the ])utler's pantry. The chamber 

 floor is entirely devoted to sleeping apartments and closets. 



A building of this description should be constructed from stone 

 or brick. If the latter is used, stuccoing will impart an agreea- 

 ble finish. The wood-work should be of the best clear white pine. 

 The cost will not exceed $6,000. 



Quick Thawixg. — Many plants perish of cold, not so much be- 

 cause of the cold itself, as because they are thawed rapidly. A 

 row of frozen Peas facing the morning sun, is completely cut off 

 by a degree of cold unfelt by the very same crop screened from 

 the sun. A lot of bedding out plants are frozen hard in a neglect- 

 ed vinery ; get up the heat and they die ; shade them, and thaw 

 them very slowly, and they are as fresh as ever. 



A couple of examples of what happened in France last winter 

 may assist in rousing the incredulous to an appreciation of such 

 facts. Last January a gardener had the ill luck to have a batch 

 of Pclargoniimis frozen in spite of all the care he could take to 

 shelter them. As soon as he found out what had happened, he 

 put half into a greenhouse and half into a cellar. The first lost 

 all their leaves, the second were completely saved. The same per- 

 son took up his fine solid Celery, and left the plants at the foot of 

 a wall facing the south. When the severe frost set in he 

 had no time to take them in doors, and therefore covered them 

 well up. The thermometer, however, fell to 5'^, and the plants were 

 frozen. He then removed some to his kitchen garden shed, and 

 the rest to an Orangery, where the temperature was kept a few 

 degrees above freezing. The next morning the Celery in tli*.' shed 

 was all right, but that in the Orangery was rotting fast. 



So much for quick thawing ! 



