261 THE GARDENER. [June 



costume as consisting of "a waistcoat, a hat, and a pair of boots." 

 The base of this summer-house is of stained red deal, the sides of 

 glass, and " tlte roof is of red tiles" This garden horror is used by 

 the author himself, he tells us. Apart from their ugliness, such glazed 

 structures are simply stew-pots in summer ; and after sitting in one 

 it would be almost a luxury to crawl under an inverted sugar-cask 

 with a hole in the top. The " usual rustic thatched summer-house " 

 Mr Fawkes, like all professed makers of summer-houses, condemns. 

 Those who have used such will, we are told, " be fully alive to its dis- 

 advantages." We have not heard that any discovery of this kind has 

 been made yet. There are a number of summer-houses, of the rustic 

 kind, scattered over the gardens and estate of the Duke of Buccleuch 

 at Drumlanrig Castle, and at other places, that it would do some horti- 

 cultural architects good to see. They are clean, cool, comfortable, pretty, 

 and attractive retreats, and perfectly in keeping with their surround- 

 ings. It would be an outrage on good taste to put a skeleton glass 

 house with a red tile roof in such situations. An " exterior view of 

 a conservatory," and a " panel of lead glazing," show more of Mr 

 Fawkes's taste as a horticultural architect, and are suggestive, in 

 conservatory culture, of unclean corners, dead wasps, and flies, and of 

 spider-webs — things which usually congregate in corners created by 

 the kind of glazing and decorative style there indicated. As in 

 conservatories of the older type, Mr Fawkes neglects (and, we think, 

 misunderstands) the wants and needs of the inmates of a conservatory, 

 compared to which the construction is an entirely subordinate affair. 



The author also condemns the system of glazing in which the putty 

 is only used for bedding the glass, and considers it "by no means 

 sightly." We never knew before that top putty was an ornament, 

 and the rabbet, when top putty is dispensed with, does not need to be 

 so deep and conspicuous. The opinions of those who have tried the 

 plan are that it has the advantage in appearance : in other respects it 

 is every way the best. If Mr Fawkes had seen large houses glazed in 

 this way, such as some of the vineries at Clovenfords and elsewhere, 

 he would not have stated that it was a system only fit for Cucumber- 

 frames and suchlike. 



There are a good many other points upon which gardeners will dis- 

 agree with Mr Fawkes. They would want to know, for example, how 

 he proposes to water a Vine-border, like figure 90, page 156, and which 

 is something like a lump on a camel's back. His lean-to vineries, too, 

 with fronts 5 feet high, including 2| feet of brick-work, are an entire 

 nuisance, as every gardener knows. The brick frontage is a wholly 

 useless part, and only adds to the cost of erection and the trouble of 

 raising the Vines, that is all. With the exceptions here stated, how- 

 ever, the book is a good and useful one. 



One of the prettiest floral sights we have seen this spring was a 



