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space on this side of the Atlantic, though Roches¬ 
ter excels Flushing in the extent of land devoted 
to nursery purposes. So much for the locality. 
We now devote a few lines to a description of 
The Dwelling. —The elevation and outward 
appearance are so well shown in the engraving, 
opposite, that little description is necessary. The 
view is taken from the southwest. The building 
fronts on a spacious street 96 feet wide. The 
kitchen rs in the wing attached to the southeast¬ 
ern side, and though standing back from the main 
part, commands a view of both the front and side 
streets, and is almost as pleasant in location as 
any other room in the house. The gate on the 
side street furnishes ready access to both the front 
and rear of the kitchen, and to the rear of the 
house. A wide Piazza passes along the front 
and around the south side, and in front of the 
wing. The Observatory overlooks the village and 
surrounding country, and from it may be seen a 
part of Long Island Sound, the southern portion 
of Westchester County, and the Palisades on the 
Hudson River. The roof is tinned and painted, 
and the building furnished with outside close 
shutters and inside blinds A hexagonal lattice- 
work summer-house, surmounted with compass 
points and weather vane, is seen in the left. FJag- 
ged walks extend from the streets to and around 
the house These are lined with flower borders 
and shrubbery. The grounds in front are supplied 
with a variety of deciduous and evergreen trees 
and shrubs, which partly seclude the house from 
the street,—a portion of these are purposely 
omitted in the sketch, in order to show the archi¬ 
tectural structure of the dwelling. The out-build¬ 
ings are located in tbe rear, back of which are 
the grounds in cultivatibn. The structure is of 
wood, the walls being filled in with brick. The cel¬ 
lar under the main building is partly above ground. 
The Ground Plan —The reference figures 
explain the internal arrangement pretty fully. 
The rooms on this floor are 11 feet high in the 
clear. They are warmed by one of Sanford’s 
Portable Heaters, in the cellar. Hot air pipes 
also lead up through the chimney flues to the 
nursery and library, and to one room in the third 
story or Attic. Any one, or all of the rooms 
may be warmed, as desired. Notwithstanding the 
objections, urged by some, to hot air furnaces, 
we believe this to be the safest, neatest, most 
convenient, and most comfortable mode of heating 
rooms. The kind of heater used, being unsur¬ 
rounded with brick work, gives out rather too 
much heat in the cellar, but this is compensated 
by the fact that the floors of the first story are 
kept moderately warm, and young children, who 
are always on the floor, are less liable to take 
cold. Ours have the pre¬ 
sent winter, for the first 
time, been free from 
colds, though they have 
run out in all weathers. 
—The Drawing Room,or 
larger Parlor,A. A. is not 
divided by folding doors, 
but has an arch over the 
center, as indicated by 
the dotted lines. The 
smaller Parlor or Sitting 
room, C. is shut off 
from the Dining Room D. 
by folding doors. The de¬ 
fects in the arrangement 
of this floor, which we 
should have avoided, had 
we planned the house, 
and which we shall reme¬ 
dy, are: first, there are 
not closets or pantries 
enough ; and second, 
there should be stairs 
descending directly from 
the kitchen to the cel¬ 
lar. The present access 
to the cellar is under 
the main hall stairs, 
S. and by an outside 
passage between the 
two sets of steps in 
the rear of the house. 
The Conservatory, F. is shut in by glass above 
the wainscoting, and was designed for plants in 
part, but we prefer to keep it more as a play 
room for the children, where they may romp 
and exercise in cold air and in sunlight, when 
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kept in by rain or snow. Our ‘‘olive plants” 
require the first care—other plants must bide 
their time until green houses are built. 
The Second Floor Plan. —The hight between 
joints is feet, in this story. There is a partial 
deficiency of large closets 
here also. The warm air 
from the register in the 
lower main hall, rises 
through the stairway, 
and by opening the doors 
leading in to the rooms 
I, H , K, the chill is 
taken off, and the rooms 
made comfortable in the 
coldest weather. Both 
the Nursery and the Li¬ 
brary are warmed by hot 
air coming up through 
pipes in the chimney 
flues, put in after the con¬ 
struction of the house. 
The one in the nursery, 
N. is very convenient, as 
the room can be readily 
warmed in the evening, 
the register be then clos¬ 
ed, and opened again 
when young children are 
to be washed and dress¬ 
ed in the morning. So also, we can quickly 
warm up the Library or Study, when we wish to 
run in at any time of the day or evening to 
write a few moments—for in this room much 
of our writing for the Agriculturist is done. 
The Attic or Third Floor,— The rooms here 
are 6j feet high at the eaves, and 7J feet high in 
the middle. There are, therefore, four good rooms, 
besides the dark Store-room V, These are 
convenient for hired help, when .boarded in the 
family. We often wonder at the economy, which, 
to save a foot or two of wall in hight, leads those 
building houses, to make the attic rooms so low 
THIRD STORY OR ATTIC. 
R, Bed-room, 151x12}—S. Bed-room, 151x121— T, Bed¬ 
room, 191x121, 13— U, Bed-room, 19)xl21—F, Dark Store¬ 
room, 101x7—IV, Attic Hall, 25x7 —A S, Attic Stairs— 
7’ S, Stairs to Observatory—c, e, c, c, closets—r, Hot air 
Register—4 chimneys with flues shown. 
as to be nearly useless. A very few dollars will 
suffice to carry up the walls high enough to give 
an abundance of sleeping apartments, or store 
rooms, as may be desired. 
We have thus given the general plan and ar¬ 
rangement of the house as it is. It is pretty 
convenient, though somewhat different from 
what we should have made it, if we had plan¬ 
ned it originally. More pantries and closets 
should he provided on every floor; a stairway 
should lead directly from the kitchen to the main 
SECOND STORY OR CHAMBER PLAN. 
H, Parlor Chamber or Bed-ro >m, 15x14}—/. Bed-room, 15x15—/.Chamber Hall— 
K, Hall Bed-room, 11x61— L, Library and Study, 161x131—AT, Nursery or Family 
Bed-room, 14x131—Af, Bed-room, 101x9—0, Bath-room, 101x5—P, Water Closet, 
61x5—S, Main Stairs—A S, Attic Stairs —K S, Stairs to Kitchen— c, c, c, c, c, c, Clo¬ 
sets or pantries— be, be, Book cases—r, r. Hot air Registers—A, Hall in Wing, 12x6}. 
