THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 113 



mended years ago by llr. Rivers, and capital thinp;s those pear trellises 

 are for those who have room for thein. But for me, who would grow a 

 thousand fuchsias, geraniums, and what not every year in the space occu- 

 pied by one trained pear, the trellis was a sheer waste of ground, and so 

 away went the pears from horizontal to perpendicular, to fill an upright 

 open wire trellis next the back walk, and there was a gain thereby of the 

 ten feet lights. So here was a greenhouse almost ready made. 



Eut to lean those lights against such a brown paper fence as we had 

 would have been ridiculous ; the north-easters would have shot through 

 the crevices caused bj' sunshine, and have struck down the plants like so 

 many jioisoned arrows. So a lot of cheap second-hand floor boards were 

 purchased, and with these the fence was lined with a two inch space 

 between, and that space was filled with sawdust. Here, then, we have as 

 good as a brick wall, and three coats of paint will make all sound and 

 sweet. jVext this wall take out a trench, and throw the stuff fur ward to 

 form a solid bed. Some more old floor-boards and lengths of quartering 

 make a sound wall on the side of the bank to keep up the stuff, and a 

 bottom of broken bricks rammed ia, and with a thin crust of coal- ashes 

 over, will do for the present as a walk. The carpenter makes ready in a 

 trice the right number of studs, and plates, and shutters. Good carpenters 

 are real magicians — pi-ettiest trade under the sun, gardening only excepted 

 — and in very little more time than it has taken me to write thus much, 

 the house was up, and here, as an additional instalment of photographs 

 from my garden, is a view of it : — 



You see the ventilation is very simple ; there are hanging shutters all 

 along the front, lift-up lights at both ends of the roof, and no lift-up in 

 the centre, because it was found that to cut those lights would spoil them, 

 they were not so substantially made as the others. The last act in the 

 ckaina was to pave the walk with Yorkshire tiles, and spread over the 

 bed a surface of coal-ashes, and put up a few shelves on the back wall 

 and further end for pots. 



Now, I must remind the reader that pictures often fail to show the 

 real excellence of the object figured, and generally in scenery they fall 

 far short of the beauty of the reality. In this case there is an exaggera- 

 ration comparing the picture with the fact. The picture gives the house 

 a very stately appearance, and, though it is truthful to a hair, yet this house 

 is a low, mean, and almost unsightly structure, for it lies in a hole, and as 

 you go down the garden, you see over the roof into the meadows beyond, 



