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THE FLOEAL WORLD AND GAEDBN GUIDE. 



Height. Colour. Begin to 



° bloom. 



Thalictrum tuberosum ....... "^ ... 2 ... AVliite ... June. 



„ aguilegifolium ... V Meadow Euc ... 3 ... Purple ... May. 



„ eornati ) ... 3 ... White ... May. 



Veronica spicata \ ,.. 2 ... Blue ... Juue. 



5> alba V Yeronica ... 2 ... White ... June. 



„ frutieulosa ) ... \... Flesh ... June. 



Viola tricolor grandiflora ...") v' 1 ^ ••• ''^••- Various ... March. 



» odorata j violet ___ i... Blue ...March. 



^^* Sow thin, prick out to nursery rows as soon as the plants are large enough U> 

 handle, and of all choice subjects pot a few to keep over winter in frames. Move to 

 blooming quarters in February and March. All the above will grow in ordinary good 

 garden soil. 



PEACTICAL EUSTIC-WORK. 



Mb. Howlett's book is entitled " Practi- 

 cal Eustie-Work ; or, the Uses to which 

 the Cones of the Fir Tribe maybcApplied;" 

 and is published by Messrs. Jarrold and 

 Son, of London Street, Norwich, and St. 

 Paul's Churchyard, London. Mr. How- 

 lett is an experienced hand in this branch 

 of garden embellishments, and some short 

 time since took a prize offered by Mr. 

 Savage, of Winchester, for the best six 

 baskets suitable for entrance-halls, plant- 

 liouses, etc. Mr. Howlett has in this 

 prettily-illustrated work given very con- 

 cise instructions in the construction of 

 rustic- work of all kinds ; but his chief ob- 

 ject has been to show " the use to which 

 the cones of the fir tribe may be applied, 

 oifering as they do a great variety of mate- 



rial for rustic-work, being so exquisitely 

 modelled by the hand of Nature, that no 

 chisel can rival them." The instructions 

 are prefaced by a short essay on the prin- 

 ciples of taste to bo observed by thse who 

 use rustic-work, in which Mr. Howlett 

 gives his dictum, that "where the modern 

 style of terrace and geometrical gardening 

 is adopted, rustic-woi'k is out of the qties- 

 tion ;" to which we subscribe most heartily. 

 AVe have engraved two out of the thirteen 

 designs in Mr. Howlett's work, as examples 

 of the ingenuity displayed in their con- 

 struction. Eespectiug the handicraft, the 

 following is a portioii of Mr. Hewlett's 

 practical instruction : — 



" Before commencing to work, it will 

 be necessary (in addition to cones) to pro- 



