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feet six inches to the ceiling, and four feet six inches at the 

 walls. 



Though this house would not be out of place on almost 

 any village lot, it is especially suited to one somewhat irreg- 

 ular in surface, or outline. It is well fitted for a corner 

 house, the fronts, seen in the engraving, showing on the two 

 streets. In any event, the lot on which it stands should be 

 of good size. 



This plan may be easily spoiled. No alteration should be 

 attempted without good advice. Some practical man may 

 perhaps object to its irregularity. He may svonder that one 

 part of the house stands back of the other. If he prefer the 

 square, dreary, double house, so common formerly, and seen 

 sometimes still, his wish is easilj'' gratified, and for a model 

 he can take a packing-box. 



The cost of this house is estimated at ^1,62.5. 



PINE WOODS. » 



BY WILSON FLAGG. 



The generality of those who are accustomed to observing 

 the aspects of nature will agree that a pine wood, of what- 

 ever species it may consist, possesses a character which is 

 altogether unique. Whether if arises from the contrast of 

 light and darkness and a certain harmonious blending of cheer- 

 fulness and solitude, or from a happy combination of these 

 with a variety of other circumstances, there is within it and 

 around it, an indescribable charm, which is not so deeply felt 

 in any other description of forest. Notwithstanding the dark 

 shades of its interior, and the sombre character of its dense 

 masses of evergreen foliage, as seen from without — whence 

 it has derived the name of " black timber" — yet the shelter 

 and shade it afi'ords, both in summer and winter, cause it to 



* This Essay is intended as an introduction to a series, in which the individual species 

 of our forest trees will be described more in detail, and with more particular reference to 

 their practical value. 



