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A STANDISH-HOUSE AND SCREENS. 



I beg to submit the following to the atten- 1 covered with tiffany. The flaps show the 

 tion of your numerous readers, and advise system of ventilation. The screens are 

 every one of them to set to work and build | very much like Mr. Simpson's, in the 

 a Standish-house. There is no patent to March number of the Floral World. 

 infringe, though the idea is well worth ' By-the-bye, Mr. Standish says oiled 

 one ; and as for the price, that is " ridicu- ' cotton soon rots ; he cannot speak for 

 lously low." varnished cotton. Now, I think, if Mr. 



A common greenhouse is built in the I Miller's plan was applied to tiffany, it 



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Pig. 1.— Top of Standish-house., showing, a, ventilating-flap shut ; b, flap open. 



lightest possible manner, but sufficiently 

 strong that the frame will stand, the wood 

 not having to carry any weight but tiffany, 

 a fine, thin kind of calico-looking stuff, 

 made by Mr. Shaw, of Manchester. The 

 rafters, etc., can be very light indeed. The 

 width of the tiffany is thirty-eight inches, 

 and costs 5s. or 6s. per piece of twenty 

 yards long. The rafters are placed nine- 

 teen inches apart ; thus each breadth of 

 tiffany is supported in the middle. It is 

 tacked on to the wood, a piece of common 

 woollen list being first placed on the tif- 

 fany, so that it does not tear, nor let the 

 heads of the tacks cut it. The list, more- 

 over, adds to the good appearance of the 

 house, showing regular dark lines on the 

 ■white ground. For ventilation, flaps, 

 going the whole length of the house, are 

 made so as to open by a pulley, as the ac- 

 companying sketch (Fig. 1) shows. I have 

 not troubled you with a drawing of the 

 whole house, as any shape will answer. 

 The principle is this, that wherever glass 

 has been used for gardening purposes, tif- 

 fany entirely supersedes it, being lighter, 

 cheaper, betterdooking, and superior for 

 turning frost. 



The same principle of construction is 

 applicable for the protection of standard 

 trees and for trees on walls. Fig. 2 is the 

 best form of a screen for standard and 

 bush fruit-trees ; and Fig. 3 a convenient 

 form for covering a wall. They are each 



would answer admirably. If Mr. Hibberd 

 will make a Standish-house, he can laugh 



Fig. 2. — Screen for standard trees. 



at the " London blacks," and, for a man 

 of his taste, it is just the thing. 



