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XEW ENGLAND FARJilER. 



Jan. 



DESIGN FOR A COUNTRY, OR VILLAGE HOUSE. 



This design and plan, by Mr. Geo. E, Har- 

 ney, was drawn and engraved for the New 

 England Farmer, and is intended more ex- 

 pressly for a small milk farm near a city or 

 large town, where the cultivation of flowers 

 and plants might also be made a profitable 

 business. But aside from these peculiarities, 

 the arrangement of the rooms are suggestive 

 of comfort and convenience. The conserva- 

 tory might be omitted entirely, and the milk 

 room used as a store-room, or for other pur- 

 poses. 



As indicated by the plan, A shows the por- 

 tico ; II the front hall, 7 by IG feet ; B the 

 parlor 14 by IG feet, and opening out of this 

 is the conservatory, G, for plants and flowers, 

 14 by 18 feet, fitted up with shelves at the 

 sides, with a stand in the centre and a passage 

 way of three feet in width all around it. 

 From personal observation, Mr. Harney re- 

 commends the following plan as the most 

 efFeciive way of heating a small green house : 

 A furnace made of a common air-tight stove is 



placed in a brick air-chamber underneath the 

 floor, the heat passing up through a single 

 pipe running from the top of the chamber to 

 the floor — while from the floor at the farther 

 end of the conservatory, near the door, an- 

 other pipe extends downwards, and terminates 

 in the bottom of the air-chamber, thus pro- 

 ducing a thorough circulation of air all the 

 time, with a regulated supply of fresh air 

 from out of doors conducted by means of a 

 box like a common furnace box, to the chamber. 

 The six upper sashes of the roof have pulleys 

 and cords by which they may be lowered or 

 raised at pleasure. 



At the further extremity of the front hall 

 a glazed door opens into the back entry. 

 This hall opens out upon a back porch, I, 6 

 feet wide, and into the parlor and kitchen, D, 

 which is 12 by 18 feet. The dining room C, 

 14 feet square, also connects with the kitchen 

 by means of a small passage fitted up with 

 shelves. On the right of the chimney is a 

 good-sized china closet. Opening out of the 



