56 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
One of the Frorat Wortp pictures will answer admirably for practice. Place the 
picture on the left hand, and the paper to the right, with the glass on edge between 
them, thus— 
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By looking st the glass obliquely from the left side, the picture will be seen 
clearly delineated on the paper to the right, and you have but to follow with a 
pencil the lines laid down for you, andin a few minutes you may complete the out- 
lines of an elaborate design in the most perfect manner imaginable. To follow out 
this lesson will be too easy a matter to justify particular advices here. It will cost 
at most nothing to construct a drawing-board, with a groove for the glass, and a 
holder to keep the paper from shifting, and it will not cost much in the way of 
time, attention and perseverance, to render the eye and hand so ready in opera- 
tion by the aid of our simple apparatus that they will soon be enabled to dispense 
with such aid, and by their works declare the owner a genuine though self- 
taught artist— Garden Oracle. 
THE ROYAL AQUARIUM AND SUMMER AND WINTER 
; GARDEN, WESTMINSTER. 
aapeseeg| i Royal Aquarium and Summer and Winter Garden at Westminster 
jg) was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, on Saturday, January 22, and 
forms a prominent architectural feature among the structures in the 
neighbourhood. It has been erected on a site in the Broad Sanctuary, 
and Tothill Street, Westminster, and is within a very short distance of 
the St. James’s Park Station on the Metropolitan District Railway, and is, there- 
fore, readily accessible from all parts of the metropolis. The building is 600 feet in 
length from its eastern frontage to its western boundary, and has been built in the 
most substantial manner with red Fareham bricks, with Portland and Bath stone 
dressings, freely introduced and elaborately carved. The “front hall’? at the 
eastern end is 140 feet in length, and 85 feet in width, and has ornamental 
towers at the corners. Through wide openings both on the ground and gallery 
floors, at the west end of the hall the Promenade or Winter and Summer Garden 
is reached. This is 400 feet long by 160 feet wide, and is approached from the 
front hall, and from two bold entrances from Tothill Street. The width of the 
main avenue, or, promenade, is 8!) feet, or 8 feet wider than that of the Crystal 
Palace. The height of the gallery from the floor of the promenade is 16 feet, and 
from this level to the springing of the vaulted roof is about 16 feet, and the height 
from the floor to the vaulted roof is 72 feet. The roof over the central portion, 
or avenue, is semi-circular in form, and consists chiefly of iron and glass. It has 
been glazed on the principles of Rendle’s Patent. This system of glazing, the 
invention of Mr. W. E. Rendle, is specially"adapted for horticultural structures of 
all kinds, as we have stated in these pages on more than one occasion, and as 
testified by the popularity it is rapidly acquiring in nurseries and private gardens. 
By this invention all the woodwork is completely covered by the metal and glass, no 
putty is used, and in the construction of circular roofs bent glass is entirely dispensed 
with. 
The galleries extend ail round the building, and are 40 feet wide, a portion at 
the east end being set apart for refreshments. The large orchestra is placed in the 
centre of the north side; and at the west end of the building is a concert room and 
theatre combined. This is of noble proportions, and capable of seating 2300 
persons. The Aquarium is remarkable as being the first of the kind erected in the 
heart of a great city. There are thirty-one show tanks, nine for fresh water, and 
twenty-two for sea-water animals. In addition there are twelve reserved tanks in 
which to place living food, and also any animals that may be in a sickly state. 
