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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
[June, 
CUMMINGS’ 
Architectural 
Details. 
CONTAINING 
3S7 Designs and 967 Illustrations 
Of the Various Parts Needed in the Construc¬ 
tion of Buildings, Public and Private, 
both for the City and Country. 
ALSO, PLANS AND ELEVATIONS OF 
Houses, Stores, Cottages, and 
Other Buildings. 
BY 
M. F. CUMMINGS, A.M., Architect, 
Associate Author of “ Architecture, by Cummings 
& Miller,” and “Modern American Archi¬ 
tecture, by Cummings & Miller.” 
Nearly eight years ago, the author of this work, 
In connection with Mr. C. C. Miller, architect, 
published a work on architectural details, which, 
as soon as it was presented to the architects, car¬ 
penters, and builders of the country, met with a 
rapid sale; and, judging from the number of edi¬ 
tions through which it lias passed, and the great 
circulation reached, it must have met the approval 
of those most interested in practical architectural 
works, and must have filled, in a measure, a want 
before unsupplied. 
The success of that book lias induced the author 
to publish a second one, which is now presented to 
the public, and in it will be found an extensive 
collection of designs illustrating tlie features 
which go to make up structures such as are 
needed to meet the wants of the American 
people. 
What has been aimed at is this : To present a 
mass of architectural details, easy of construction, 
pleasing in form, and generally of an inexpensive 
character, and all so designed that a great variety 
of selections may be made from them, which, when 
combined in a building, will produce a harmonious 
whole; and it is believed by the author that this 
work will be found to be of value, and that its 
design is practicable, for there are hundreds of 
towns and villages, in all the States of the Union, 
in which the wants of the people continually de¬ 
mand the erection of buildings, largely of wood, 
and which in the hands of the builder aud work¬ 
man may be made elegant and pleasing in all their 
features, provided they have at hand a guide such 
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Chap. I. Varieties. 
“ IT. Aspect. 
“ III. Preparation of 
the Soil. 
“ iV. Distance Apart 
in Planting. 
“ V. Dwarfs aud 
Standards. 
“ VI. Planting-Time. 
“ VII. Planting. 
“ VIII. Nursery Trees. 
Chap. IX. Varieties to Plant. 
“ X. Pruning. 
“ XI. Manuring and 
Mulching.. 
“ XII. Gathering Fruit. 
“ XIII. Marketing Pears. 
“ XIV. Profits. 
“ XV. Propagation, etc. 
“ XVI. Practical Sugges¬ 
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