GARDENING. 



Oct. /, 



side, and fumish appropriate locations 

 for flower beds which are usually and 



In such a plan as this it is ver\- impor- 

 tant that the hues of the walk be made 

 and kept true for if the comers are not 

 true and the grass not kept sharply edged 

 up the effect is very unpleasing. 



Hazleton being in a mining country the 

 fear was expressed that the park would 

 suffer from the depredations of the rougher 

 element, such is not the case however, 

 the park has attracted the attention and 

 admiration of all, but nothing has been 

 damaged, not even a flower pulled. 



J. Wilkinson Elliott. 



Pittsburg, Pa. 



EXI'L.\N.\TION OF PL.\N. 



1. Monument. 



2. Mountain laurel {Kalmia Uitifolin). 



3. Japanese maples. 



4. Magnolia conspicua. 



5. Weeping Japanese cherry (Primus 

 pendula). 



6. Weeping dogwood. 



7. Magnolia Soulaugeana. 



8. Cut leaved birch. 



9. Chinese arbor vitie (Biota Orient- 

 alis). 



10. Flower beds. The round one is 

 filled with Japanese eulalia grasses, the 

 three beds next the walk with geraniums, 

 and the crescent shaped bed to be a rib- 

 boned or carpet bed. These beds can be 

 changed annually if desired and planted 

 every fall with tulips and hyacinths for 

 spring flowering. 



11. Flowerbeds. The center bed to be 

 filled with AlphonseBouvier and Madame 

 Crozy cannas, and the end beds with 

 coleus. 



12. Fin oaks, sugar orsilver maples. 



13. Chinese cypress. 



All the massed planting shown is of 

 shrubs, a few evergreens, and some small 

 growing trees such as dogwoods, red bud, 

 white fnnge, and birches planted at the 

 back next the sidewalk. Large groups of 

 Hydrangea pnniculata grandiflora are 

 set freely in the margins of the shrub- 

 bery next the lawns. This hydrangea 

 when planted in masses in extremely rich 

 soil and cut to the ground every spring is 

 extremely effective and is a solid mass of 

 splendid large flowers for a long season 

 in the summer when few other shrubs are 

 in blossom. 



A SMALL CONSERVATORY. 



Greenhouse and Window. 



«0W TO BUILD fi SMALL CONSERVflTORy. 



The drawings here ])resente(l sh.jw a 

 small conservatory suitable to be attached 

 to a private house. They arc original and 

 prepared expressly for Gardening. The 

 dining and dra w ing rooms of many houses 

 are about 15 feet wide, have a chimney in 

 the center with windows on either side of 

 same. This conservatory erected in con- 

 junction with either of these rooms would 

 be an artistic and serviceable addition. 

 The windows could be altered to door- 

 ways with or without doors as desired. 

 .\ foundation btiilt of the same material 

 as that of the dwelling with stone footings 

 carried below frost line should be pre- 

 pared for the conservatory, or if this be 

 too expensive, locust posts could be used 

 instead. If posts are used the tops must 

 be squared, and the projjcr angle given to 

 those which form the corner of the octa- 

 gon. German siding could be nailed to 



posts, the board at the grade line extend- 

 ing below the level two or three inches. 



By consulting the scale details in con- 

 junction with the following description 

 you will, we think, understand the 

 "method employed in the construction of 

 this building. 



A sill 2 inches by 6 caps the foundations 

 and should be laid in a thin bed of cement. 

 Floor beams 2 by 10 inches secured to 

 the sill and supported at the house on a 

 2x4 secured to dwelling, should be laid 

 the 11 foot way of conservatory. A])late 

 2x4. inches is next fastened to the top of 

 the floor beams, following the outlines of 

 conservatory same as sill. To this plate 

 the rafter feet are secured by cast iron 

 lugs bolted to the plate and rafter feet. 

 It will be noticed that this plate extends 

 outside of the conservatory forming a cap 

 for the base, and constructed in such a 

 way that it is impossible for water to 

 find its way into the joints. The height 

 of the sides as well as the length of the 

 rafters can only be determined by the room 



available, position of the windows in the 

 second story, etc. This must all be care- 

 fully noted before operations are com- 

 menced and a large scale or full sized 

 drawing made to determine these points. 

 The rafter feet and rafters are joined to- 

 gether with a wooden bracket, as shown, 

 and securely bolted to each. The eleva- 

 tions and dotted lines on plan show the 

 number and position of the rafters. Where 

 the rafters join at the ridge they should 

 be secured to the same with iron stra]5S. 

 The sides of the conservatory fi-om the 

 top of the floor to a height of 2 teet 6 

 inches are panels running between rafters 

 and secured to the same. A sash sill caps 

 the panels, and above this are the side 

 sash 1% inches thick, hinged at the top 

 to facia and provided with iron straps to 

 open them. The facia, 1% inches thick, 

 runs from rafter to rafter in one contin- 

 uous piece The rafter feet should be cut 

 away where the facia strikes them so that 

 the face of the rafter foot and facia are on 

 the same plane. Thegutter isconstructed 



