Hand book of practical landscape gardening, designed for city and suburban residences, and country school-houses . irculation, and to supply cool air from outside, ashaft is introduced, running along under the floor, and terminat-ing at the platform on which, in winter, the stove or heatingapparatus will stand, and from this distributed into the room bynumerous small holes in the riser of the platform. We considerthe simplest methods of ventilation the best, and the above willbe found both simple and effective. The great desideratum is toprovide means for the discharge of a certain quantity of
Hand book of practical landscape gardening, designed for city and suburban residences, and country school-houses . irculation, and to supply cool air from outside, ashaft is introduced, running along under the floor, and terminat-ing at the platform on which, in winter, the stove or heatingapparatus will stand, and from this distributed into the room bynumerous small holes in the riser of the platform. We considerthe simplest methods of ventilation the best, and the above willbe found both simple and effective. The great desideratum is toprovide means for the discharge of a certain quantity of vitiatedair, and to supply its place by the same quantity of pure air,properly warmed in winter. To make the discharge moreeffective, the stove pipe may be carried up in connection with oneof the shafts, rarifying the air. and making the upward currentstronger, but in ordinary cases this will be hardly necessary. There are two entrances to this house, one for boys and one forgirls. Both entries are ten feet apart, and are in the main build-ing, opening directly into the school room. 78 HAND-BOOK OF PRACTICAL. And now to our change of the ground plan. We make A asthe teachers stand; s, the position for the main stove; s S, ineach of the 12x16 rooms, both of which to be used as class rooms;c c, the position of the flues for the stove pipes. We have laidout our paths on the ground to be ten feet wide from thefront gate, sixteen feet directly in front of the center of thehouse. The rear line carriage path, for the delivery of fuel, andaccommodation of those who take their children to school on arainy day, we grade, as the lines show, from ten to eight feet-The porches are indicated on the plan, and the rooms 10x10 arefor the clothing of the children, one for the girls and one for theboys. In the rear we have marked B and c as for two privys,and have made our plan that the boys should enter and usemainly the side where the twin roadway is shown. The outlines LANDSCAPE GARDENING. 7.
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