Hand book of practical landscape gardening, designed for city and suburban residences, and country school-houses . of course can be enlarge!. 76 HAND-BOOK OF PRACTICAL Such a building as this, placed on dry ground and amid agrove of trees of the native forest, having the old or decayedtrees removed, would be daily visited by the children of aneighborhood for learning and with pleasure, all things consid-ered, as before written touching the teacher. We want no moreuse of the rod, for it is time that intelligence of mind, notpassion, should rule. Leaving this we now give an elevationdesign taken
Hand book of practical landscape gardening, designed for city and suburban residences, and country school-houses . of course can be enlarge!. 76 HAND-BOOK OF PRACTICAL Such a building as this, placed on dry ground and amid agrove of trees of the native forest, having the old or decayedtrees removed, would be daily visited by the children of aneighborhood for learning and with pleasure, all things consid-ered, as before written touching the teacher. We want no moreuse of the rod, for it is time that intelligence of mind, notpassion, should rule. Leaving this we now give an elevationdesign taken from the Horticulturist of 186H, made by G. , a capable architect. We have changed his ground plan,and made a plan for the planting of an acre f ground as a schoolground, giving the position of the building. We give the lay ofthe grounds, line of paths, position of the building, but have notspace in our columns to give a definite scale for the number where the large trees are, where the shrubs are to beplanted; but first our copy of the building by Mr. Harney as aperspective It will be seen at once, by the most common observer, that thedesign is to be constructed of boards, set upright, and show of chimneys has been given by Mr. Harney, and in mychange I have marked where the chimneys should be, supposingthem only as flues for stove pipe, and opening or ventilating ator in the cupola by side air passages. The height of the main rooms should be 12 feet, rising in thecenter of the principal school room, marked 20x30 on the plan, LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 77 from three to five feet. We quote the following, touching onHarneys ideas relative to the inside structure: The wood-work should all be stained, and the walls tintedsome Boft neutral tint—gray, cream or pearl color. The windows are all sash windows, double bung for purposes of ventilation ;and, in addition, there are two ventilating shafts rising from thefloor through the attic, and termina
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