142 The Co7intry Gaitlemaiis Magazine 



This table may be used for cut flowers, half Fig. 2 represents a flower-stand made of 

 of the box being filled with moss, and the the cheapest material, wire, on a cast-iro-a 

 rest with fine white sand, into which the tripod. If bronzed or gilt, such a stand 

 flowers are to be stuck nearly up to their 

 calyx. If tastefully arranged with regard to 

 the harmony of colours, such a table will 

 have a pretty effect, and the flowers will last 

 for several days if not exposed too much to 



■Table for Flo\vers. 



the action of the air. As a rule, all stands 

 with cut flowers should be provided with 

 glass shades to be put on at night, and re- 

 moved just before breakfast in the morning, 

 to secure them from dust which must neces- 

 sarily arise in doing up the rooms in the 

 morning, and also to protect them from air. 

 The moss and sand being saturated with 



water when they are put in, the flowers will would not be out of place in a drawing-room, 

 remain much longer in a fresh state than if but when simply painted or galvanized, which 

 placed in water alone. is better, its fitting place is out of doors. 



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-Flower S;and of \\'ire-\^oru. 



DRESCHLEKS FUMIGA TOR. 



This patented Fumigator, which is manu- 

 factured by Messrs Dick Radclyfte ^- 

 Co., is in very general use in the Royal 

 Gardens at Windsor. Mr Cole, gardener 

 at EaUng Park, so well describes its action, 

 that we cannot do better than place his re- 

 marks before our readers. " A thorough good 

 serviceable fumigator, by which the houses 

 and pits could be easily filled with smoke 

 from the outside, has long been wanted, for 

 it is certainly one of the most unpleasant 

 matters connected with the garden to be 

 shut up for a quarter of an hour in an en- 

 closed space filled with tobacco smoke. We 

 have now that want supplied in the fumigator 



here figured, which also difters entirely from 

 all other fumigators in its principle, and also 



Drechsler's Fumigator. 



in the entire absence of everything approach- 

 ing a toy character." 



