Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds . nd on the farm, and all the materials to be drawnby the farmer, will not exceed $1,700. [The cost nowwould be about $4,000.—Ed.] The Ornamental Portion of the Farm. The ferme ornee is a term generally applied to a farm,the whole or the greater part of which is rendered in somedegree ornamental by intersecting it with diives, andprivate lanes and walks, bordered by trees and shrubs, andby the neater anangement and culture of the fields. Butit may also be apj)lied to a farm with a t
Cottage residences; or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds . nd on the farm, and all the materials to be drawnby the farmer, will not exceed $1,700. [The cost nowwould be about $4,000.—Ed.] The Ornamental Portion of the Farm. The ferme ornee is a term generally applied to a farm,the whole or the greater part of which is rendered in somedegree ornamental by intersecting it with diives, andprivate lanes and walks, bordered by trees and shrubs, andby the neater anangement and culture of the fields. Butit may also be apj)lied to a farm with a tasteful farm-hoiise, and so much of the ground about it rendered orna-mental as would naturally meet the eye of the stranger,in approaching it the first time. It is evident that the farm proper, in the present case,may consist of 50 or 500 acres. We have only shown inthe annexed engraving. Fig. 35, a plan of a few acres imme-diately surrounding the house, and consisting of theentrance lawn «, about one and a quarter acres borderingthe entrance Ioad or approach h, the oichard c, tbe COTTAGE IlESLDEKCES, 84^. [Tie. COTTAGE EESIDEXCES. 85 kitchen garden c/, adjoining fields, in grass or under theplough e, and the yard for the out-biiildingsy. At g is shown the house, and in the rear of the kitchen,wash-house, etc., is the kitchen yard h. The out-buildings,or farmery, are arranged around three sides of a square,open to the south, and consist of the piggery _;, the tool-house communicating with the garden h, open shed forcarts, ploughs, etc., I, cow-house with three calf-pensattached at the end m, barn n, stable for horses o,wagon-house j>, and corn crib q. The surface of the yarddescends slightly on all sides to the centre/, where themanure heap is kept. This collection of out-buildings ismuch more comj^lete and extensive than mil be foundconnected with most farms in this country, but ^ye havegiven it with a view of exhibiting Avhat ought to be aimedat as a desideratum i
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