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The Country GentkmatCs Magazine 



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CONSERVATORY, FERNERY, STAIRCASE, AND DRAWING- 

 ROOM DECORATIONS. 



PERSONS of the most fastidious taste 

 cannot fail to be gratified at the excel- 

 lent examples of decoration presented to 

 illustrate this article. There is an easiness 

 and style about the whole that is thoroughly 

 appreciable. Those not remarkable for 



gratified at the style and finish of the whole ; 

 the eye of the heedless is not offended, he 

 may rail a little at the designs of Virgin Cork 

 being placed to interpose between either his 

 line of vision or intercept his passage along 

 a straight line from one door to another, but 



Fig. I. — Virgin Cork i'erneiy. 



taste, as well as those that are, can for 

 once agree. Although their modes of living 

 and enjoying life are as wide as the poles, 

 yet each has nothing much to complain of. 

 The eye of the fastidious is in a measure 



that is about all he is likely to disclaim 

 against. After all, there is something more 

 than the mere possession of a plant ; there is 

 something more than the mere keeping it 

 alive — the mere growing it as well as it can 



