. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. goodstrong and sound boards, from ten to four-teen inches wide, and one to one and afourth inches thick. These should betongued and grooved so as to make a closejoint, and nailed to the frame of the housein a vertical manner. The joint should becovered on the outside with a narrow stripof inch board, from two to three incheswide. The accompanying cut, fig. 32, a,showing a section of this mode of weatherboarding Avill best explain it to the reader. We first pointed out this mode of cover-ing, in our Cottage Eesidences. A greatnumber
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. goodstrong and sound boards, from ten to four-teen inches wide, and one to one and afourth inches thick. These should betongued and grooved so as to make a closejoint, and nailed to the frame of the housein a vertical manner. The joint should becovered on the outside with a narrow stripof inch board, from two to three incheswide. The accompanying cut, fig. 32, a,showing a section of this mode of weatherboarding Avill best explain it to the reader. We first pointed out this mode of cover-ing, in our Cottage Eesidences. A greatnumber of gentlemen have since adoptedit, and all express themselves highly gratified with it. It is by far the most expres-sive and agreeable mode of building inwood for the country ; it is stronger, equal-ly cheap, and much more durable thanthe thin siding; and it has a character ofstrength and permanence, which, to oureye, narrow and thin boards never can have. ON SIMPLE RURAL 109 When filled in witli cheap soft brick, it alsomakes a very warm Fig. 32. Cottage Siding and Roofing. The rafters of these two cottages arestout joists, placed two feet apart, whichare allowed to extend beyond the house,two feet, to answer the purpose of brack-ets for the projecting eaves. Fig. 32, b,will show, at a glance, the mode of rafterboarding and shingling over these rafters,so as to form the simplest and best kindof roof.* The window dressings, which shouldhave a bold and simple character, aremade by nailing on the weather boardingstout strips, four inches wide, fig. 33, a,of plank, one inch and a half in coping piece, b, is of the samethickness, and six to eight inches wide,supported by a couple of pieces of joists,c, nailed imder it for brackets. We have tried the effect of this kind of * The simplest miKle of forming an eave gutter on a pro-jecting roof like tliis, is shown in the cut, fig. 3i, at c. Itconsists merely of a tin trough, fastened to the roof by it
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