A City House Beautified

Amld the general negleot oL picturesque effects in the exteriora of New York dwelling-houses, it is pleasant to come now and then upan a building which is the exception to the rule- a epot which the owners have thought lt worth while to beautify at the expense of Bom pains and a certain amount of money, though the latter need be only a small item, says the Now York Tribune. In Tenth street, Just west of Fifth avenue, only two or three doors from the Ohurch of the Ascensión, there is an imposing foshioned house. It has a one-story extensión, which occupies an adjoinlng lot on the same Street, reachlng quite to the wall of the next house beyond. Between the extensión and the house to whlch it belongs there is a conwnunication on the ground floor, the one story building being used ohieiiy as a library. But it is in the roof arrangement of the extensión that the decorative effect consista. A brick parapet, three or four feet high, with occasional diamond-shaped embrasures, extends along the top of the entlre front wall. The top of this parapet ia flat and is covered with low boxes containing growing plante. At this. sesión the place is a mass of chryeanthemums, yellow being the predominant color, and the brightness of their tinte againat the dull nues of the building is noticeable many rods away. In the spring the tulips on the parapet are quite aa gorgeous as the obrysanthemums are now, and the owners of the house oause the flowers to be changed according to the season of the year. A sturdy growth of the Japanese lvy, now In ita autumn bronze, covers the walls of both house and extensión and adds to the general effect. The building has a rather foreign appearance, owing to the parapet garden which is not often seen here. The rooi space, which is cut off from the street view by the wall and the flowers, is tiled and used in pleasant weather as a veranda. The Windows of the seconc story of the house open directly upon u_