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O NE of the most artistic designs ever 
constructed. In addition to its un¬ 
doubted beauty, it is rendered 
unique by having a graduated bottom, 
PERCHES 
on which our feathered friends may stand with 
shallow water on one side, deep water opposite. 
The center-piece serves as a food-tray, or if 
connected with running water, forms a water 
Bpreader making an appreciated 
SHOWER BATH 
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The Cottages and Houses of French Canada 
( Continued, from page 52) 
of brown, dull green and gold, like 
nothing so much as the scales of a 
great carp, and these tin roofs are one 
of the most beautiful and most interest¬ 
ing features of Quebec architecture. It 
has been stated that they were made of 
the tin containers used for export from 
England. This seems a possible explana¬ 
tion, for fin is not found in commercial 
quantities in Canada, and is not used 
as a roofing material in Europe. 
Enlarging and Placing 
When a house became too small, the 
usual method seems to have been to 
add to the length, so that houses are 
sometimes found of double length. A 
wing was sometimes added at the back, 
at right angles to the main building. 
The simple, oblong shape is, however, 
one of the characteristics of the type. 
The houses usually stand close up to 
the road, with no garden, or at most 
only a very small one in front. The 
garden, with its vegetables, tobacco plot 
and fruit trees is usually at the back. 
This arrangement, like so many others, 
is the natural outcome of the climate. 
When the deep snow is on the ground, 
Hie shorter the distance from the front 
door to the road, the better. 
The larger houses in the country are in 
two stories with often two additional 
lloors in the roof. Though not so in¬ 
teresting as the cottages, they yet have 
a solid, simple quality which is refresh¬ 
ing in contrast with the flat-roofed iron- 
corniced aberrations which are too often 
taking their place. 
Religious Houses 
The most interesting of the larger 
buildings are the houses of the religious 
orders. In them a simple but very ef¬ 
fective type has been produced, based 
in the main on the simple renaissance 
of Henry IV. They are two or three 
stories high with an attic low down on 
the roof, and are planned in long simple 
wings, with a dome over the central 
block. Ornamentation is confined to an 
occasional niche for a statue, or a little 
wooden fleche set on the roof. The 
walls are of rubble, with stone sur¬ 
rounds and shutters to the windows. 
The verticality of the windows is strict¬ 
ly preserved and there is no attempt at 
picturesqueness or ornamentation. Yet 
honest building, good proportion and a 
big roof are in the result more beautiful 
than elaborate architectural designs. The 
general quality is of great sobriety, as 
befits the object of the buildings. They 
look like what they are, and they look 
fully capable of facing all the rigors of 
a Quebec winter. 
Of the churches it is not possible to 
write now. They form a group of great 
Architectural interest and distinctive 
character, though many of the most in¬ 
teresting have been lost and their places 
taken by modern buildings of no great 
beauty. They are usually aisleless, with 
very large roofs and a slender pictur¬ 
esque steeple set on the roof at the 
western end. They have eastern apses, 
above which is often set a little fleche. 
Curiously enough, though the typical 
house is of stone, the typical old church 
is of wood. In many parishes possibly 
a stone church was too difficult a prob¬ 
lem for the local talent. 
A Native Style 
The old buildings of the Province of 
Quebec are one of the few genuine ver¬ 
nacular styles of the American conti¬ 
nent. Though their roots may be traced 
to old France, yet in their present form 
they are the outcome of Canadian con¬ 
ditions. They are not, like so much 
modern architecture, mere adapted copies 
of European work, they have no trace 
of the drawing board and the T-square. 
They are a native style, simple no doubt, 
and lacking in the finer graces of crafts¬ 
manship, but well built, well adapted to 
the country and with that charm which 
so usually accompanies honest and di¬ 
rect effort. 
Landscape Plans for the Small Place 
( Continued, from page 23) 
autumn. A clump of arborvitse screens 
a space which could serve as a small 
drying yard. Dense vines cover the 
rear fence, forming a background for a 
succession of flowers — poet’s narcissus, 
bleeding heart, coral bells andspeciosum 
lilies. 
In the main turf panel, large patches 
of snowy white and violet crocuses come 
first. These are followed by early yel¬ 
low tulips. Near the terrace are blue 
grape hyacinths and orange crown im¬ 
perials. 
In May the panel is framed by hun¬ 
dreds of stately lavender-blue Iris pal¬ 
lida, and near the terrace a combination 
of purple wistaria and iris, orange trol- 
lius and deep yellow azalea. 
Next come rows of pink Oriental 
poppies. Then the center of interest 
moves to the terrace where blue lark¬ 
spur, Harrison’s yellow roses, light blue 
forget-me-not-like masses of anchusa, 
early pink and white phlox and climbing 
tea roses of creamy yellow and pink, 
uphold the dignity of early summer. 
It being now midsummer, the garden 
becomes quietly green, relieved only by 
anthemis and the late lemon lily. The 
respite, however, is of short duration, 
for the phloxes, in hand with masses of 
gypsophila, presently fill out the garden 
again with a cool combination of laven¬ 
ders, pinks and cloudy whites, which 
linger until the speciosum lilies and Jap¬ 
anese anemones foretell approaching 
autumn with its helenium, New England 
asters and monkshood. 
On the sunny side of the house there 
is a space for a tiny rose garden, with 
brick walk and low bird basin. Sur¬ 
rounding it is a hedge of dark Japanese 
yew. On one side the roses are red and 
white; on the other, pink and coppery- 
yellow. Around the circle is a border 
of baby polyanthas. The few kinds 
selected are of the choicest and hardiest 
—climbing teas, moss, hybrid perpetu- 
als, and everblooming hybrid teas. 
This third planting costs about $267.- 
55, divided as follows: evergreens, 
$73.70; deciduous trees, $13.75; decidu¬ 
ous shrubs, $28.85; vines, $19.50; bulbs, 
$14.40; perennials, $86.35; roses, $31. 
Now that the pictured dream is trans¬ 
fixed in concrete form, there remains 
the practical question of cost. The lists 
show the quantities of the plants needed 
to carry out the plans in their fullest 
perfection. Supposing that rigid econo¬ 
my is necessary, these totals can be 
decreased without sacrificing the es¬ 
sential elements of the design. It is 
hardly advisable to curtail the quanti¬ 
ties or sizes of the plants, but by taking 
more trouble, the following reductions 
can be effected: 
Plan No. 1. Substitute 10 Evonymus 
radicans from side of house for 10 pros¬ 
trate junipers across front. Omit screen 
of poplars, and wait for shrubs to grow. 
Omit Chrysanthemum uliginosum, six 
peonies, hemerocallis from front of 
shrubs around lawn. Raise the follow¬ 
ing plants from seed: forget-me-not, 
English daisy, larkspur, cosmos, calen¬ 
dulas, ageratum. The amount saved is 
$32.28. This makes the original esti¬ 
mate of $106.48 dwindle to the sum of 
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