1878.1 



AND HORTICULTURIST. 



299 



Take, for instance a floral design place it 

 beneath the glass, then mix some colors with 

 varnish (using a China plate or piece of glass if 

 a palette is not convenient), then with a fine 



camel's hair pencil, outline the various leaves 

 and flowers with its own peculiar color; next 

 take proper colors and make all veins, lines and 

 fine tracei-y of grasses, &c., then put on the colors, 



each one mixed with copal. When done and 

 dry, paint over the whole with black, oiying two 

 or three coats, then allow to dry, and upon re- 

 versing the glass panel, your design will appear 



The most wonderfully brilliant effects can be- 

 secured by tliis process, and the rich, transparent 

 tints, reflected back from the brightly planished 

 foil, every shade of tone is made to yield its 



before you hi all the brilliant lints you applied, 

 reflected back by means of the black ground. 



If desu-ed unusually brilliant, the colors should 

 be mixed with Demar and tin-foil put over 

 certahi flowers, while the paint is still " tacky." 



otherwise concealed beauty, making these panels. 

 equally beautiful, as the gorgeous. Oriental- 

 glass-painting of the Chinese. We also use 

 transfers of various kinds for these panels, and 

 with great satisfaction, for they offer an easy 

 and effective means of securing good resuls, at 

 small cost of labor or money. 



[We give again with this number some of the 

 patterns of Messrs. Gleason, referred to in Mrs. 

 Jones' articles. — Ed. G. M.] 



SMALL CREEN HOUSES. 



BY MISS A. G. 



Dm-tng this and previous Winters, several 

 small Green Houses excited my interest, and 

 I have made a "note on it," which is here given 

 for the benefit of those who feel a similar in- 

 terest with myself. 



They are all heated with anthi'acite coal, by 

 stoves. The smallest is eighteen feet long, and 

 nine feet wide. The highest part at the back 

 of the lean-to is seven feet seven inches ; 

 from the ground to the roof, in front is tlu'ee 

 feet. The floor is dug down two and a half feet. 

 An excavation deeper than the floor is made for 

 the stove, which is set neiA' the front, but not 

 quite in the centre of the line east and west. A 

 glazed terra-cotta pipe runs from a short galvan- 

 ized pipe attached to the stove, about three- 

 fourths of the length of the building, under a 

 wide shelf at the front, then crosses the eastern 

 end of the house, (the house faces south) and 

 runs up the northeast corner nearly to the roof, 

 and then passes outside, where it rises thi-ee or 

 four feet. The top is closed, but several aper- 



