THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



the top of the stove, filled with water, by 

 which a moist heat can be obtained when 

 necessary. Tlie price, I believe, is about 

 £3. 



I send you an account of these two 

 gas-stoves for burning inside greenhouses, 

 with tlie Iiope that it may prove useful to 

 some of your readers, who, like myself, 

 are so circumstanced that they require a 



mode of heating which can enable them 

 to leave home for days or weeks together 

 without fear of frost aifectiug their fa- 

 vourites during their absence through 

 neglect. 



I enclose my card for your own satis- 

 faction, and am yours, 



A SUBSCBIBEB. 



PEOTECTION OF PEAS FEOM SPAEEOAVS. 



It is the complaint ©■ almost every gar- 

 dener, in the early months of the year, 

 that the sparrows eat their peas, and do 

 what they will, they cannot keep them off. 

 Now I have adopted a plan for the last 



three years that answers admirably. I 

 get a piece of yellow deal board, about 

 seven or eight inches wide and three- 

 quarter-inch thick, out of which I make a 

 number of bats, the shape and dunensions 



of which are shown in the cut, and after 

 putting fire small nails or tacks round the 

 outer edge ; I place one at each end of 

 every row of peas, and if the rows are long, 

 I place one or more at certain distances 

 along the rows; I then get some white 

 worsted, and beginning at the first bat, tie 

 it on to the lowest nail on either side, then 

 take it on to the corresponding nail in the 

 next bat, give it one twist round, and so 

 on to the end of the row, then bring it 

 back on the second nails, and so on till 

 there are five rows of worsted. This 

 forms a complete arch over the peas, 

 which no sparrow will venture under, be- 

 sides it has a very neat and tidy appear- 

 ance ; in fact, I think its very neatness 

 helps to keep the birds away, for it has 

 something of the trap or net look about it, 

 and so the birds are outwitted and the 

 crop saved. Some may argue that it is 

 extravagant to put five rows of worsted to 

 one row of peas ; not at all so, for by one 

 person taking one end and one the other 

 they may be shifted from one crop to 

 another as they advance, and so last a 

 whole season. If the bats are dried and 

 painted when the season is over, they will 

 last for years. 



S. Randall. 



ME. EIVEES ON TIPEANY OECHAED-HOUSES. 



Houses built with stakes or slight timber, 

 and the roofs and sides covered with 

 tiffany, have very recently been intro- 

 duced, and found efficient in protecting 

 half-hardy plants from severe frost. 



I now propose to erect tempoi'ary 

 houses of the same materials, to protect 

 dwarf and pyramidal fruit-trees while they 

 ai-e in bloom, and I have no doubt but 

 that they will lead to a new era in fruit- 

 gardening among amateurs, offering, as 



they do, a very cheap method of protection. 

 A border, or bed of fruit-trees, may be 

 eight feet wide, and planted with three 

 rows of bush fruit-trees, as shown in the 

 above section, one row in the centre, and 

 the other rows three feet from it, and 

 the trees three feet apart in the rows, thus 

 occupying six feet of the bed. A tiffany- 

 house to cover the trees in a bed of the 

 above width, may be eight feet wide, three 

 feet high at the sides, and five feet high in 



