Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds. Adapted to North America (1847)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852 · New York : Wiley and Putnam · leaf 151
re. ALombardy poplar or two, judiciously introduced in the midstof groups of round-headed trees, will have a happy effect.The beautiful wooded situations on the banks of our finerivers are, many of them, admirably suited for an Italian villaof this kind. Construction. We have supposed this villa to… … lumns enclosing the lattice are supposed to be octagonal, and four inches in diameter, the COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 121 lattice itself being much heavier and more durable than itis usually made. Its ceiling is made of beaded and planedstuff, forming also the roof, and the rafters are in like man-ner…
Architecture, Domestic
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