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opened, the plants lose half their interest. 

 The plan now recommended to those who 

 wish to enjoy the pleasure of seeing plants 

 thrive in their living-rooms, is to have a large 

 glass case (see fig. i), placed in front 

 of a window, and projecting into the room, 



with a door opening into it, so that it 

 could be entered from the room. The floor 

 of this greenhouse, or plant-cabinet, should be 

 made of wood, a little higher than the floor of 

 the room ; so that, if it should be \\-ished, it 

 could be removed without injuring the house. 

 The whole of the upper part of the case, pro- 

 jecting into the room, should be glazed, but 



to the height of about two feet it should be 

 of wainscot, to correspond with the panelling 

 round the room. This panelling is lined within 

 the cabinet with leaden troughs, communi- 

 cating with each other, and having a slight 

 declination towards another trough lower than 

 the rest, and near the balcony outside the 

 \vindow, and so contrived that any water, 

 draining from the pots or boxes containing 

 the plants, may run ofl" into the lower trough, 

 which should not have any flowerpots in it, 

 unless they contain aquatic or marsh plants. 

 In these troughs should be placed wooden or 

 slate boxes, filled with earth, in which climb- 

 ing plants are placed, alternately with camel- 

 lias, orange-trees, or other flowering shrubs, 

 so as to be seen from the room. The lower 

 half of the window, behind the glass case, 

 should be taken out of its frame, and the 

 balcony covered with glass as shewn in 

 fig. 2 ; and this glass should open in several 

 places, so that fresh air may be admitted at 

 pleasure ; and the glass-door of the cabinet 

 in the room should be made to fit closely, so 

 that the dry air from the living-room may be 

 excluded when necessary. 



The mode of arranging the plants in a 

 plant-cabinet of this kind must depend upon 

 the taste of its possessor. A very pretty 

 effect is produced by training the small-leaved 

 ivy up a slight trellis placed just within the 

 glass that projects into the room, and having 

 plants with showy-coloured flowers placed at 

 intervals, so as to be seen from the room 

 among the ivy, the light from the window 

 behind giving the plants placed close to the 

 glass the effect of transparency. 



IV. — RUSTIC BRIDGES. 



There are many places in this country 

 where a little sparkling stream runs through 

 a deep romantic glen, and where a bridge 

 of brick and mortar, or even stone, would 

 look wretchedly out of place : and yet 

 v\here it is almost necessary to have 

 some mode of passing from one rock to 

 another. In such situations, nothing can be 



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more appropriate than a rustic bridge, such 

 as that shewn on next page, which can be 

 made by any village carpenter a\Iio can con- 

 trive to put wooden planks firmly together, 

 while the materials for the decorative part will 

 be found in the woods on the estate. 



The principal thing to be attended to in 

 making a bridge of this kind is, to make it, 



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