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of fine sand, put on the shelves for the double purpose of taking up the drip from the 

 pots, and absorbing it again in the house, g, cast-iron pipe, to act as the chimney, 

 the upper part to correspond 

 in workmanship with the 

 stages. A, stage, eight feet 

 in diameter; this can be 

 made to revolve by attach- 

 ing the bearers to a strong 

 bolt round the chimney, i, 

 cistern ; the water to be con- 

 veyed under ground ; the top 

 of the cistern to be under 

 the floor of the house. /, 

 pump, also to be hid, by 

 an ornamental shaft, not less 

 than four feet high without 

 the vase, to be cast round, 

 square, or octagon (I suppose 

 it ought to be round, to be 

 in keeping with the stages). 

 made to take off at pleasure. 



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The spout of the pump screws on, and the handle is 

 When the pump is not in use it is shut up in this 

 column, by means of two movable panels, e, monumental shafts, or columns, varying 

 in height, similar to the one above, h, stages, to correspond with the above, but ol 

 course stationary, c, corners, to group large plants or stages, as may be required. 

 «, border, one foot wide, running all round the house, about two feet six inches deep, 

 to be well drained and filled with suitable compost, for creepers to run up the rafters. 

 h, four-inch brick wall ; holes to be left in the first course of bricks, as an escape for 

 the drainage from the border, m, a wall like k, without the openings. I, this place 

 receives the heating apparatus, being two feet six inches wide in the clear, d, d, door, 

 four feet wide. The whole of the floor to be covered with a neat cast-iron grating, to 

 be cast in panels, to be taken up at pleasure. An ornamental 

 flange runs all round the house, separating the border from the 

 floor ; the four stages, 10, to be finished with vases. Brackets 

 may spring from the pilasters, or between the rafters, bearing an 

 acorn cup or Magnolia flower, to receive a pot with some pendu- 

 lous plant. All the vases for plants of that nature swinging 

 from the roof in convenient places, ornamental baskets of iron 

 filled with the same plants, a few neat iron chairs placed on the floor in conve- 

 nient places, to be bronzed. There is in this house a little over six hundred feet ot 

 staging, running measure. This house would be well adapted for a first class place, 

 where a supply of plants in season could be supplied. As this is the iron age as well 

 as the progressive, suppose both were applied to the beautifying of the buildings 

 dedicated to Flora. 



