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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 155 cottage window : it is two feet six inches broad, three feet high, weighs 34 lbs., and costs 1 5s. This sash is calculated for being fixed in the masonry, having in the centre a square of six panes, which opens for the admission of air. As it requires no window frame or hinges, it must be a very cheap substitute for the sash window. Mr. Laxton appears to have chosen the cheapest of these casements ; but, where ornament or style is thought worthy of attention, the Gothic or Grecian headed iron sashes, figs. 284 and 288, would still be found economical. 308. Gardens. We do not think it desirable that there should be a walk round this building close under the windows, because it would have a tendency to destroy privacy. We would rather give a small flower-garden or grass-plot, to each house, separated by low walls, and forming separate entrances through each plot, as shown in fig. 289. We 289 CX/3Sm?,:SSK.5n::2rzCK»"Jr3."SE«KSeSf^£KCSKSE2;ffiri^ would by all means raise a terrace, two steps high, and four feet broad, round the whole, so as that the building might seem to stand elevated a little above the general surface; and this would give the grass-plots or flower-gardens a slope outwards towards the walks