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THE FLOEAL WOKLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



practice for many garden-loving townsfolk, it is surely entitled to 

 consideration in the light of a new invention. If the reader will now 

 turn to any one of the windows of the apartments occupied during 

 the perusal of this, it will be seen that there is a space both within 

 and without the glass sashes that may be appropriated for the culti- 

 vation of plants, as the annexed diagram will illustrate. Let A 

 B represent the inner sill, B the existing glass sashes, and 



C the outer sill. The whole width of A and C may be 

 appropriated to plants by providing a glass case to fit it ; 

 and as most windows consist of two sashes, the lower 

 sash may be removed and its place be taken by the case ; 

 or if that is objectionable, the space C may be appropriated to the case, 

 which may be allowed to project a little beyond the actual width of C 



in order to gain a suf- 

 ficient depth for a good 

 effect. Where the win- 

 dows are large, and 

 there is no objection to 

 a considerable projec- 

 tion, two feet depth 

 may be considered 

 liberal for the Hortus 

 fenestralis ; its width 

 and height will be de- 

 termined by the window. 

 The next business is to 

 fit it. It is well if the 

 base be made of one 

 stout slab of slate, the 

 joints may be iron, and 

 the lower sash of the 

 window may be made 

 to serve as its inner 

 side, and the means of 

 access to it. Any 

 skilled worker in glass 

 and metals could fit up 

 a case if furnished with 

 such a design as the 

 employer would ap- 



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part of the workmanship must be good, and there ought to be about 

 the whole affair an elegance of finish consistent with the elegance 

 of its purpose. Messrs. Barr and Sugden, the eminent seedsmen of 

 King Street, Covent Garden, have for a long time past given their 

 attention to the construction of cases of this sort, and we have in- 

 spected many that they have built and fitted, and from sketches of 

 many such, we have selected the subjoined as fair examples. 



Let us suppose we have a window to deal with. It is perhaps a 

 window of comparatively little use to afford either light or air, and 



