NEW YORK. AND ROCHESTER N. Y, MARCH 14, 1874. 
PRICE SIX CENTS. 
S2.50 PER YEAR. 
VOL. XXIX. No. It.I 
WHOLE No. 1259. f 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in tlie year 1874, by the Rural Publishing Company, in the office of the Librarian of Oongress at Washington.] 
Iftontl Architecting. 
A GOTHIC BUBAL CHURCH. I 
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W k cleaire to build a church—a neat one 
thut looks tasteful and will be pleasant in a 
rural place. Can the Rural New-Yorker 1 
fumisn us any hints, plans, &c., that will aid 1 
us h - A Country Pastor. 
Perhaps we may, by drawing on Hobbs’ 
Architecture (published by J. B, Lipprncott 
& Co., Phil.) from which we copy the accom¬ 
panying perspective and plan of a Gothic 
Church which is located about three miles 
from Pittsburg, Pa , upon the East. Liberty 
Road. It is built of frame, boarded verti¬ 
cally and buttoned. The inside is finished 
with ornamented principal rafters, wrought, 
to a beautiful design, the spaces between 
them being plastered, and colored azure-blue. 
The building contains in its rear wing a 
lecture-room and school-room, with the walla 
laid off and colored in imitation of stone. 
They have fine high ceilings, and u beautiful 
bay runs out to the rear, producing an effect 
which is seldom obtained, — and never in 
basement*. The outside is in full Gothic 
ornament, carved out in wood. It is covered 
with the best quality of slate, and is painted 
aud sanded thoroughly. The whole cost is a 
little over 415,000. The [jews and pulpit are 
block walnut, This church may be consid¬ 
ered a successful attempt at wooden Gothic 
architecture. It was burned down but re¬ 
built as before. 
Dimensions. —Church, 53 feet by 37 feet 9 
inches ; 1, vestibule, 13 feet 3 inches by 12 
feet 0 inches ; 2, aisles, 4 feet wide; 3, pulpit; 
4, lecture-room, 38 feet 8 inches by 38 feet; 
5, infants’ school-room, 14 feet 8 inches, by 
10 feet. 0 inches; C, center pews, 16 feet long, 
—accommodating nine persons each ; side 
pews will accommodate four each. * 
ARCHITECTURAL NOTES. 
iF7to Has Used Patent Roofing ! - I should 
like to know your opiniou and also the opin¬ 
ion of Rulal readers who have used any of 
the Patent roofing that has been so exten¬ 
sively advertised for the last year. Is it as 
good as it is said to be f Is it cheaper than 
Pine, Cedar or Hemlock if one has the timber 
of his own ? Hus last question includes dura¬ 
bility; as if it lasts it is the cheapest, if it 
does cost, more to begin with, what does it 
cost, &e. ? Farmers who have used it tell us 
what you think of it ?— Sylvester Lehman. 
Not having had experience with it, we 
cannot answer. 
Fixing Slates on Roofs. — The Scientific 
American says: — Slates, instead of being 
nailed to the roof, may be fastened by mov¬ 
able hooks, about two inches long, which 
are soldered to conically formed zinc plates, 
4 to 6 inches long. The slates are thus kept 
securely between the hook and zinc plate, 
and can be removed simply, with the greatest | 
facility, by r turning the hook. Thus one or 
more of the slates can be taken out for re- j 
pair, or new ones inserted, withont interfer- ! 
mg with the rest. The method is said to 
make a roof watertight. 
BuilMny a Cellar. J. J. B,, asksthe Rural 
New-Yorker to tell him “ how to build a 
cellar so as to prevent the water from coming 
in, and of what materials.” Obr correspond¬ 
ent should have told us in what kind of soil, 
at what elevation, wliat the opportunities 
for drainage, &o. It is a gook deal too indefi¬ 
nite a question for us to answer. There are 
some localities in Ohio where the building a 
cellar so as to prevent water from coming 
in would be like building it in the center of 
Lake Eiie. 
Cotton Cloth for Roof .—Twenty years ago 
I used between forty and fifty yards of cot¬ 
ton cloth to cover my veranda. I paid seven 
cents per yard for it, painted It after putting 
it on. Have painted it three times since. 
The West side wore out three years ago ; 
GROUND PLAN. 
the North side, is in good order ; Northeast 
side is good ; Southeast side not good. I 
think cloth as cheap as shingles.—H. W. 
Willard. 
To Our Readers. —We shall be ghul to re 
ccive for this Department of the Rural 
New-Yorker, photographs arid sketches of 
perspective, elevations and plans of farm 
buildings, with full descriptions thereof. An 
exchange of ideas aud of real buildings and 
architectural conveniences through this me¬ 
dium will be found profitable and interest 
ing. It costs us a [great deal of money to 
engrave and prepare such contributions for 
publication ; bub we shall cheerfully incur 
this expense for whatever is meritorious and 
that is known to be a practical convenience, 
if contributed to these columns. 
Sllt^ (Samian. 
LIMA BEANS. 
Editors Rural New-Yorker: —Noting 
the inquiry of your New-Hampshire sub¬ 
scriber as to where Lima Beans may be pur¬ 
chased, it may be replied :—For planting, at 
any good seed store in Boston, New-York, or 
elsewhere. The produce dealers of Green¬ 
wich and Washington streets, New-York, 
often have for sale a fair article of Lima 
Beans, sullicieutly good for cooking, though 
hardly perfect enough for seed, at prices 
ranging from $5 to 47, and at and in the 
vicinity of Philadelphia they are sometimes 
sold as low as $4. 
For genuine Yankee baked beans they are 
not weU adapted, breaking up so as to lose 
their shape and identity, coming to the table 
in a mass mere like mush. Medium and Pea 
Beans are best adapted to baking, though 
I the Kidney and Marrow are used by those 
who prefer to have beans bake dry, 
Lima Beans are best, suited for cooking, as 
a green shell bean, separately or with sugar 
corn, in the very palatable dish known as 
succotash. This bean is grown more easily 
than is often supposed ; so much so that 
x. oat families, evon us far north as New 
Hampshire, may produce enough for home 
consumption. It was formerly the practice 
to start them on squares of rich sod inverted 
in the hot bed, and at the appropriate season 
remove them to the garden. It is now gen¬ 
erally well known that If planted in warm, 
rich soil, after danger of frost has passed, 
say the first of June, they come up readily, 
grow very fast, and produce beans large, 
enough for the table, in a little over three 
months. An application of guano or hen 
manure in the hill, covered with soil, upon 
which the beans are to be planted, augments 
their early maturity. Make a good-sized 
hill on u level with the surface of the ground, 
pulverizing the soil finely, and incorporating 
any fertilizer used; stick five beans, eye 
down, around a space, for the pole, if that 
has not been already set, and not over an 
inch deep, and never less than four feet apart 
each way. When they begin to run, train 
the young vine to the pole until it gets well 
GOTHIC GHURCH.-PERSPECTIVE. 
started, and when it reaches the top, not 
more than 10 feet, punch off the ends to 
throw the strength into the fruit, by retard¬ 
ing vine growth. A light frost Injures them 
very little in early fall. Do not plant the 
Sevia or small Lima, but the large white.— 
H. C. W„ Passaic, N. J. 
In reply to the inquiry, “ Where can Lima 
Beans be bought?”—cheap, I presume he 
means—I would answer by saying that for 
the last two years they have been very 
scarce and high, so much so that they have 
been sent from California to supply the de¬ 
mand, A few years since the farmers cf 
Delaware went to work raising them and 
killed the market; then they quit in, confid¬ 
ing it a poor-paying business. Since then 
very few can be bought at any reasonable 
price. Parties in this city are trying to con¬ 
tract with growers for the coming season at 
$6 per bushel; but, so far as I have heard 
from, they have not succeeded. A large 
quantity of Lima Beans are grown near 
Hackensack, N. J., but they are mostly sold 
in the pod while yet green. Just at the 
present there is a good opening for those 
wishing to grow in this vicinity.—Now and 
Then, New-York City, Feb. 26, 1874. 
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GARDENERS’ NOTES. 
Planting Tomatoes.—The seed should be 
planted in March. If you have no hot-bed, 
use boxes. Fill the latter with “chip dirt,” 
warm the soil for a day or two, then moisten 
well, and in each box plant a few seed. Do 
not sow too thick. Six plants well grown 
arc worth twenty meager ones. Set them 
in a worm room by a sunny window. After 
they have grown to a considerable size it is 
better to transplant some into another box ; 
then transplant them again, so tlmt by the 
time they are to be “set out” they will be 
nearly ready to blossom. By this process, if 
you have given each plant plenty of “ elbow 
room” each time, you will have a real 
tomato season—not small, retarded plants to 
give you a few unwholesome, half-ripe toma¬ 
toes just before frost comes. These sturdy, 
stocky plants, trained carelessly upon stakes, 
will give you an early and rich harvest.— 
Leigh Lake. 
Protecting Melons from Thieves.—An 
Ohioan tells how he did this. His patch was 
quite n distance from the house and joined a 
pasture, across which the thieves came for 
Uie melons. He made two dummy men, 
and every night after dark he carried them 
to the patch and set one up against a tree 
and made the other sit down beside him, 
both near the pasture. Early in the morning 
they were carried home. They did good 
service through the season. 
Garden Peas in Ohio .— G. F. Newton, 
Millersburg, O., says:—For early peas I plant 
Virginia Hotspur (now called Early Tone), 
Carter’s First Crop and Early Kent. They 
are hardier than any other varieties I have 
tried. For later kinds I prefer McLean’s 
Advancer, Eugenie, Bishop’s Long Pod, Im¬ 
perial and Champion of England. 
Tlie Emerald Green Pea is highly spoken 
of both on account of its earlinuss and ex¬ 
cellent flavor. It has very distinct foliage 
and well-filled pods. 
Sea Kule—(B. F.). — Sow as soon as the 
ground gets warm, in drills a foot a part, an 
inch apart in the row and an inch deep. Thin 
to six inches. 
Triumph Sweet Corn is very highly com¬ 
mended by those who have grown it. 
