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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 59 93 133. Construction. The arcade, which may support the roof independently of the inner wall, should be of brick or stone. The inner walls may be of earth, or brick, or clay nogging, or of stud-work (frame-work), lathed and plas- tered. The pitch or rise of the roof is low, and the cover- ing is supposed to be of slates of the largest size ; the slop- ing joints being covered with narrow strips of slate, in the manner known in Britain by the term Wyatt's Patent, to be afterwards described. The chimney stack has a far pro- jecting cornice (fig 93, to a scale of half an inch to a foot). 134. Situation. This dwelling is calculated for being placed on a platform supported by masonry, in the midst of a garden, on an elevated situation, because it will look well from every point of view. 135. Garden. Contents, two roods, thirty-five poles, and fifteen yards. The square in which the house stands is devoted to flowers and other ornamental plants. The com- partment to the left of this square, to the perennial crops, such as asparagus, k ; sea-kale, I ; rampion, m ; tart rhubarb, w, n ; strawberries, o, o; American cranberries, p; Jerusalem artichokes, q ; and common artichokes, or perennial spinach, as may be preferred, r. The two squares to the right are devoted, s, to gooseberries, and t, to currants and raspberries. The two long squares, u and v, may be subjected to four years' rotation, as described in the preceding Design. There may be a well, or a sun dial, at w, and a small court of offices beyond the garden for other conveniences. 136. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 26,824 feet, at 5d. per foot, £670 : s. ; at 4rf.. £447 : Is : 4rf. ; and at Zd., £335 : Gs. 137. Expression. Small dwellings in this manner of architecture are generally considered as belonging to the Italian style. There can be no question of the excellence of the general effect ; but we naturally ask how it happens, that in a building so studiously uniform, the entrance stairs should not have been placed in the centre of the front? If the answer be that there is not a central opening, the question occurs, why was not this provided in arranging the plan ? Here, then, we have the Architect setting out on a principle, viz., that of uniformity, pursuing it through the main body of the build- ing, and afterwards defeating all his labours by abandoning it in an im- portant feature. If we consider this