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cut off square and gouged out to receive | 

 the imposts which are formed of rather 

 small pole3 sawn through the middle and 

 nailed to the uprights, round side down- 

 wards. Cross pieces of deal, one inch 

 and a-halt' by three-quarters of an inch 

 thick, are then introduced to form a stout 

 frame, over which the tiffany is stretched 

 and nailed on with list. The cross pieces 

 should be nineteen inches apart, the tif- 

 fany being thirty-eight inches wide ; thus 

 taking two cross bars for each width of 

 tiffany, or the wind will get hold of it and 

 fray it to pieces. During the winter and 

 early part of the season, the sides are co- 

 vered, except a portion to give air. The 

 lower part, or one half, covered with the 

 same material, nailed down on pieces of 

 wood, the same as on the top ; but the 

 upper half is covered with a stronger ma- 

 terial and let down with small wooden rol- 

 lers. My tiffany-house is sixty feet wide 

 by ninety feet long, and laid out in beds 

 underneath, where I placed a great num- 

 ber of plants, during last summer, which, 

 without a single exception, have grown 

 better than I ever saw the same plants 

 grow under glass ; and as a test for light 

 I placed a few roses there, which grew 

 and flowered admirably— in fact, I never 

 saw them finer— and the teas have re- 

 mained all the winter without the slight- 

 est injury, whereas all the tea-roses out 

 of doors, even the Grloire de Dijons, have 

 been killed. I consider tiffany the cheap- 

 est and best material for many gardening 

 purposes that has been known for years, 

 and quite a boon to gardeners, and from 

 my experience with it I believe that it 

 can be converted into winter gardens, 

 orchard-houses, shelter for fruit-trees, and 

 for growing salad3 during spring and sum- 

 mer. Lettuces, radishes, etc., might be 

 grown under it at all times of the year, as 

 they would be protected from the frost 

 during winter and early spring, and in 

 Summer from the fierce rays of the sun, 

 thus making them more delicate and of 

 better quality than when grown in the 

 open ground. I believe I shall be able 

 to ripen nearly all kinds of fruits under 

 tiffany ; and as an experiment I have 

 erected an orchard-house, where I intend 

 to grow peaches, nectarines, plums, vines, 

 and a variety of other fruits. The fol- 

 lowing is a skeleton house before the tiffany 

 is put on, and the cost is so trifling that 

 it may be well called an orchard-house for 

 the million. My house is sixteen feet 

 wide, and twenty-seven feet long, mule of 

 larch poles. The butt ends serve for 

 posts, and the tops, sawn through the 



middle, placed with the round sides down- 

 wards, serve as rafters and side pieces to 

 nail the tiffany on — all placed at nineteen 

 inches apart, so two rafters are wide 

 enough for one width of tiffany ; but as 

 the house will require air in mild and 

 hot weather, I have small frames or 

 flaps, twenty inches wide by six feet four 

 inches long, fixed with hinges on the 

 ridge- board, to open with a piece of strong 

 string, fixed to the middle of the flap and 

 drawn through a small pulley which is 

 screwed into a piece of wood, about a foot 

 long, fixed on the top of the ridge-board, 

 as shown in the sketch published in the 

 last Floral World. In appearance it 

 looks quite as well, if not better, than a 

 glass structure, and at one-tenth the cost; 

 viz., the whole cost of the above house, 

 when finished, with tiffany, was under five 

 pounds, reckoning every thing ; but in a 

 garden wherethere are plenty of handymen, 

 who could do a good deal of the labour, 

 it need not cost more than one half. It 

 may not be generally known that the 

 finest pears, both as to flavour and size, 

 are grown in the most temperate parls of 

 France and the Channel Islands, where 

 it is never very hot nor Aery cold, in 

 fact, a long temperate season. By the 

 use of tiffany I intend to produce such a 

 climate in England ; as I tind in my tif- 

 fany-house, after twelve or fourteen degrees 

 of frost, the soil, seven feet from the top, 

 is not even frozen. In very hot weather 

 the scorching rays of the sun are broken, 

 in winter the frost is kept out, which 

 makes the air more temperate than under 

 glass, and consequently more adapted for 

 growing such fruits as pears. I should 

 recommend erecting a tiffany-house where 

 all the finest French pears might be 

 grown, as the blooms in spring will be 

 protected from frost, and the season 

 lengthened in autumn so that they get 

 thoroughly ripened. For protecting py- 

 ramid-trees already grown in the open 

 ground I propose driving in split larch 

 poles, eight poles for a single tree, with a 

 frame to connect the poles at top, with 

 a wooden pulley let into one of the poles, 

 which should stand up above the others, 

 and a cap or frame to fit the top to draw 

 up in mild weather, and in summer to be 

 kept up entirely on the plan represented 

 in the article already referred to. This 

 protection, I anticipate, will benefit the 

 fruit all the summer and autumn as well 

 as the trees. Wall-trees require a series 

 of frames, with two stumps for each frame 

 driven into the ground, about four feet 

 from the wall, with a couple of saw outs 



