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to inform my reader of the use of the inven- 

 tion, aiid put him in the way to find out every 

 design contained in that figure. 



" Example i. Turn the side A to any certain 

 point, either to the north or to the window of 

 your room ; and when you have opened your 

 glasses to an exact square, set one of them on 

 the hne of the side D, and the other on the 

 side C ; you will then have a square figure 

 four times as big as the engraved design in 

 the plate. But if that representation should 

 not be agreeable, move the glasses (still 

 opened to a square) to the number 5, of the 

 side D, so will one of them be parallel to D, 

 and the other stand upon the line of the side 

 C. Your first design will then be varied ; 

 and so by moving your glasses in like manner 

 from point to point, the draughts will differ 

 every variation of the glasses, till you have 

 discovered at least fifty plans differing from 

 one another. 



" Example 2. Turn the side, marked B, of 

 the fourth figure to the same point where A 

 was before, and by moving your glasses as 

 you did in the former example, you will dis- 

 cover as great a variety of designs as had 

 been observed in the foregoing experiment ; 

 then turn the side C to the place of B, and 

 managing the glasses in the manner I have 

 directed in the first example, you may have a 



great variety of different plans which were 

 not in the former trials; and the fourth D 

 must be managed in the same manner with 

 the others; so that from one plan alone, not 

 exceeding the bigness of a man's hand, we 

 may vary the figure at least two hundred 

 times, and so, consequently, from five figures 

 of the like nature we might shew about a 

 thousand several sorts of garden-plats ; and if 

 it should happen that the reader has any 

 number of plans for parterres or wilderness 

 works by him, he may by this method alter 

 them at his pleasure, and produce such in- 

 numerable varieties, that it is not possible the 

 most able designer could ever have contrived." 



Now that the long evenings are at hand, 

 our gardening readers, both young and old, 

 will no doubt thank us for bringing this very 

 useful and ingenious instrument under their 

 notice, affbrding as it does so much scope for 

 multiplying designs, or rather creating them ; 

 for, as already explained in the extract, lines 

 or designs of the most incongruous and con- 

 fused character are brought into wonderful 

 order and symmetry by the application of this 

 little instrument adjusted at different angles. 



Bradley's volume contains a fund of read- 

 able and useful matter; and it is possible 

 that our readers may, ere long, hear more 

 about him in these columns. 



NEW AND RARE FLOWERS AND FRUITS. 



NO. 8. — CYPRIPEDIUM CARICIXUM. 



AVERY curious species, mth sedge-Hke 

 leaves, and a creeping above-ground 

 rhizome. 



Flowers of a pale greenish hue, except that 

 the sepals and petals have a narrow white 

 margin, while their extremities are tipped with 

 purplish brown. 



It comes from Bolivia and Peru. 



Mr Bateman, who lately described it in the 

 Botanical Magazine (tab. 5466), from which 



we have borrowed the figure in the cut, says 

 regarding the treatment : — 



" C. caricinum flowered in May 1865, in 

 Messrs Veitch's establishment in the King's 

 Road. It had been kept in a hot and moist 

 stove, where it seemed to thrive ; but as its 

 native habitat is a comparatively cool and 

 elevate ! region, it will probably succeed as 

 well, or even better, under cool treatment. 



