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picture which is false — it is himself who is 

 changed. His tree of life has struck deep 

 root into a far different soil, and it will not 

 hear transplanting. The prevalence of the 

 desire is evidence of the excellence of the ob- 

 ject, which preserves its loveliness of appear- 

 ance, even to him who has lost the power of 

 securing it. 



It is a good omen for our country that 3 

 sense of the advantages of such a life is 

 spreading among our people. With an in- 

 creasing love of the beauties of nature, will 

 come a higher perception of those of art, a 

 more just sense of M'hat constitutes the true 

 value of wealth, and a wider spread know- 

 ledge of the true objects of existence. 



BUILDINGS FOR HORTICULTURAL PURPOSES, 



[FROM THE LONDON IIORT. MAGAZINE.} 



As many persons are deterred from building 

 green-houses and conservatories by the ex- 

 pense, or rather the supposed expense of their 

 erection, it ought to be generally known that 

 by going a proper way to work there is hardly 

 an excuse for being without these luxuries, 

 (for such we deem them,) in any moderate 

 garden. It is true that those persons who 

 set themselves up as builders of such con- 

 cerns, and who would make it appear that 

 there is something peculiar that takes them 

 out of the ordinary builder's business, do 

 charge very exorliitantly for all kinds of hor- 

 ticultural buildings ; and where money ap- 

 pears to be no oliject, they do not forget to 

 throw a good deal of cost into certain features 

 which are no improvements, and which add 

 no single advantage to the concern. By 

 adopting circular forms and domes, by arrang- 



ing designs so as to cause irregular cutting 

 for the glass, by bringing in subjects out of 

 the usual size, and using material that is diffi- 

 cult to procure or work, it is very easy to 

 swell the cost of anything; and it becomes 

 simply a question of a great expenditure or 

 none, for the party who wishes to build ; and 

 often ends in their declining altogether to have 

 anything of the kind erected. 



Let us, then, see how ecomomieally we can 

 build a green-house and a conservatory, and 

 we will reduce the thing to lines and figures, 

 so that our readers may add the cost of carry- 

 ing material, and of the labor on the spot, to 

 put them together, and so see how much it 

 would cost them ; or they may find builders 

 on the spot, to complete the whole, without 

 having any portion from London. 



There are to be had many carpenters who 



