156 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. c c, &c. As the floors in the original plan, figs. 267 and 268, are already two steps above the surrounding surface, this terrace will occasion no other expense than the proper disposal of the earth which comes out of the foundations, the well, and the cess- pools. The kitchen-gardens, d d, would remain in the same positions as in fig. 267. We have shown a walk, four feet broad, round each garden, under the hedge, which may be of fruit trees, and we have placed the liquid manure tanks, e, in a situation which will be central to all the gardens. The emptying of these tanks should belong to each occupier in rotation. Nothing but useful plants and fruits will require to be grown in the large gardens, d d, &c., because the borders round the grass plots will be sufficient for flowers and ornamental plants. In order that this building may have a proper aspect, the diagonal of the parallelogram should form a - T -„^ north and south line, fig. 289, s n, (see § 24) ; however much the line of the front of the building may diverge from the line of the j-oad. All that is necessary in tliis case is to include the building and its gardens in a parallelogram, one side of which coin- cides with the line of the road, as in fig. 290, in whichyis the public road, and g is the building, in a parallelo- gram of exactly the same size as in fig. 289. Here it will be observed that the north and south line is at right angles with the public road. 309. Ornament- This building might be decorated, by surrounding it with a veranda, or a penthouse roof, which would give to each dwelling a covered walk during rain, or a hot mid-day sun, or under which clothes, herbs, or Indian corn, might be dried. The roof of this veranda or penthouse might be slated like that of the dwell- ing ; and this would supersede the necessity of covering the entrance lobbies with slabs, as in fig. 267. Suppose the whole building sur- rounded by a penthouse roof; brackets placed vmder the eaves of the principal roof; Tuscan tiles used, and the common chimney pots supplanted by ornamental ones ; the effect of the 291
