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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



LOOKER'S GARDEN FRAME AND GROUND VINERY. 



Y the introduction of the " Acme Garden Frame and 

 Ground Vinery,'' Mr. Looker, of Kingston, has conferred 

 a great boon upon all amateur horticulturalists, for of 

 all the many forms of portable plant protectors it 

 must be pronounced one of the very best. They are 

 light in appearance, very roomy, and, with a slight exception, con- 



LOOEEE 8 GAKDEN FBAME. 



structed of imperishable materials. The uses to which these frames 

 may be put must be so apparent that it is almost needless to refer 

 to them. Suffice to say that they may be employed in the kitchen 

 garden for the protection of lettuce and cauliflower plants for plant- 

 ing in spring ; lettuce, endive, and other salading plants, that are 

 full-grown during the winter ; raising seeds ; accelerating the ripen- 

 ing of strawberries ; and for many other purposes of equal import- 

 ance. In the flower-garden, they will be especially valuable for 

 protecting violets, pansies, pentstemons, and many Alpine plants 

 that require protection from very severe weather, and from too much 

 moisture. They may also be profitably employed for propagating 

 and raising seeds of hardy and other flowering plants during the 

 summer months, and in hardening off* bedding plants in the spring. 

 Grapes and summer cucumbers can also be grown most success- 



