Archifect's Formula for New Home Design ls Old-New Mixture

DROPER combination of traditional with present-day- F styling is the formula builder llichard A. Oiiut chose in creating the new nine-room Botanica Bi-Plex, one of five model homes in the $,12 million North Point project in Long Island's Huntington township.

plank construction with their l%"* 1/4" vertical grooves on 12" centers along the face, says Roth.

Builder Osias says the new design corrcept of tl-ris house gets away from the general trend in Long Island home building because of its additional living areas up front. This additional living space is visible on both levels through huge glass panels that extend from halls'ay entrance level to roof, exposing a rnodern rustic staircase leading upstairs to four bedrooms.

"\Ve've placed an open trellis connecting the garage on the left side and provided ample storage space in a room behind," Rotl-r points out. "That way we're able to utilize almost all of the home's floor to roof space for living area."

Extended on the front rigl-rt side is a stone garden rvall that conceals a large private terrace and reflecting pool. The terrace, visible from the staircase and both levels iusicle, also helps bring outdoor living inside.

Tlris rrew model is part of a 2,400 family colony planned by builcler Osias. The development is reputed to be the largest undertaken on Long Island since Levittown. The Botanica Bi-Plex is available lor $22.990.

The Botanica Bi-Plex, described by architect, Allen C. Roth, as the home owner's answer for a new style in living, actually "briugs the outside in" on two levels.

"In order to accomplish this, I used a combination of glass, patio and terrace areas," Roth explains. "To mak_e iure thls didn't make for au overdose of modern, I 'warmed' the exterior by using the new, cedar plywood sidings panels developed by U.S. Plywood." The abraded texture of ihe Weldwood Early American panels suggest weathered

Rustic modern sloircose, gloss encosed qnd visible from fronf, helps ioin two levels of indooroutdoor living in the Bofonicq Bi-Plex ot Norih Poinl colony in the town of Huniinglon, long lslsnd. Stone woll visible ot left is pori of pctio, off living room. Four bedrooms qre upstqirs. lwo bolhs.

The U.S. Forest Service is experimenting r,vith a new \'veapoll against destructive forest insects-other insects. We are finding good bugs to eat bad bugs. One natural enemy of the balsam woolly aphid, the l-aricobius beetle, has been imported from Germany and successfully introduced in afflicted forests in Maine. It is now being triecl at Mount N{itchel State Park. N.C.

The 75,000 acres of California redwoocls in state and national parks and preserves, ancl the hunclreds of thousands of acres r,vithin the Redwood Region tree {arm system sponsored by the California Redwood Association, insure tl.re perpetuity of the redwood forests of the northern Calirofllla coast.

Although the ancient giants of the crowcled virgin redwood forests may g'rorv as little as one inch per century, second gror''i'th redwoods have achieved a diarneter of 12 feet within the same period of time un<ler ideal grorvth conditions.