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MISCELLANEOUS GARDEN STRUCTURES. 



Fig. 687. 



Figs. 688 and 689 represent a gar- 

 dener's cottage with considerable accom- 

 modation on one floor. a entrance 

 lobby; b kitchen; c back kitchen; d par- 

 lour ; e bedroom ; / closet ; g bedroom 

 closet ; h water-closet ; i store-house ; 

 k open shed ; I pantry ; m wash-house. 



The accommodation behind is, of course, 

 under a lean-to roof. This cottage is 

 elevated 2\ feet above the surrounding 

 grounds, and finished off with a grass 

 terrace, and parapet wall formed of a 

 base of foot tiles, on which are placed 

 9 -inch drain tiles in form of open balus- 

 trading, and coped with tiles similar to 

 those of the base. 9 -inch brick piers or 

 pedestals are carried up to divide and 

 strengthen the parapet, and on them neat 

 earthenware vases are set. The walk 

 round the house should be neatly gra- 

 velled, or, still better, as it will be both 

 dryer and cleaner, paved with bricks of 

 the common sizes, but of three different 

 colours. 6- inch paving tiles will make a 

 neater and more even floor; and if in 

 three colours, and arranged as in the 

 annexed diagram, fig. 690, will be a good 



imitation of tesselated pavement. A 

 few of these will require to be cut angu- 



lar, and this can be done before they are effect, and is consistent with the situation 



put in the kiln. They must also be cut and use. Still more elegant parapets 



to a scale to suit the width of the walk, than that above shown may be formed, 



We will suppose the colours to be blue or in imitation both of the Italian and Gothic 



hard-burnt tiles, common red colour, and styles, by the use of curved and plain 



black or yellow— all colours easily given tiles, and bricks for piers to divide the 



them in making. A walk of this kind, parapet into panels, as well as for the 



pitched with small pebbles of various corners and terminations. These tiles 



colours, and laid in pattern, has a good may be made at any tile or brick work in ' 



