New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-04-25

A MODEL HOME.--The larger number of our
wealthy citizens consider a three or two story
house, fronting abruptly upon the well travelled
payements, which line some noisy and dusty,
but fashionable, street the extreme of all rea-
sonable human ambition for the possession of
home or property. Well, the three or two story
houses opening Immediately upon the pavement
of some fashionable street, looks grand Is it
as entirely comfortable as other localities which
might be chosen in the vicinity of the city
If any one had Joined us in pleasant ramble,
on last Saturday evening, as far as Desiree
street, in the Third District, he might have
thought differently. Fronting on that street
and running from Greatmen to Levee, is the
home Of Mr.. Lawrence, a gentleman, who
though actively engaged in business. operating
in cotton and sugar, yet cultivates the nice and
refined tastes of the accomplished horticulturist
Over his neat cottage home, sweeps the cool
breeze, which has daintily kissed the waves Of
the river which sweeps by our city, and which,
from his tressiled and flower embowered porch
refreshes the eye and forehead of one wearied
lors, so hushed and shaded that one listens with
almost painful suspense, for the cricket's CHR
rup, works of art from the painters easel and
the engraver's labor, so calm and SO lifelike,
that you almost realize in them an active pres
ence meeting the eye. Among the paintings
are some very excellent ones, the work of Mr.
L. Is accomplished lady.
One wanders into his gardens, and the first
thing which catches the eye is the princely
amarylis. 1t is royal flower, and faunts it.
self brsvely in the garish day. 1t steals its
livery Of bright hues from the sun, and looks
all splendor. There is the heliotrope, the jessa-
mine. the honeysuckle, the white rose; but we
have no space to enumerate.
We pass to the useful. Corn from Tehuante-
pee seed; melons from African, French and
English seed; nectarines, figs, pomegranates,
artichokes, Falstaf raspberries, Crescent straw
berries, yielding six months in the year. oranges,
lemons, giant ounces, grated and growing on
the same tree, ig-trees thriving Justify, banana
plants growing well, pineapple plants in num-
bers beyond all our previous ideas of their Gull
tivation in New Orleans, showing every promise
of successful growth, and other things too nu-
merous to mention, attract the eye, charm the
senses, and awaken attention
The bee-hives-there they are-one million
Of bees! How busy What an incessant hum
What diligent labor! How they throng into
their neat and tidy homes. Virgil must have
seen some such scene when he wrote his glorious
lines. We never saw hives more perfectly
arranged
The chicken yard-here we step carefully
through throng of Cochin Chinas, Bramah
Pootras, Buff Pootras, Black Pootras, Brown
Pootras, White .Peacocks, the magnificent In
perial Chinese, etc. They all live like lords,
and look (the cocks,) as bold, and impudent and
grand Gravel, manure, numerous apartments,
lime, etc., are provided for them. The mode of
supplying them with water is singularly inge-
NOUS and philosophical. An inverted demijohn
of water rests in a basin, and supplies in the
same proportion as the chickens drink
Why have not more of our citizens such inyi-
ting homes Why is not a taste for horticul-
ture, pride in good breeds of poultry, delight
in home uncovered in green and shady
plants