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may be planted and formed in bowers, and covered over with creeping 

 plants, such as Clematis, Ivy, Honeysuckle, &c. Moss houses of 

 various construction, root-houses, Russian, Swedish, Lapland, Scotch, 

 and Swiss cottages should be disposed of in situations peculiarly 

 adapted for them. Sometimes situations are naturally to be found 

 adapted for the one or the other ; in such cases the house should be 

 chosen to suit the situation, and this will always be found to have 

 the happiest effect. Where the situation has to be formed for either, 

 much judgment and taste are required in the arrangement : this is not 

 sufficiently attended to : thus a Russian cottage composed of oak 

 timber-trees, and the adjacent ground planted with laurel and other 

 polished shrubs, natives of southern latitudes, and close-shaven grass 

 lawns, is as preposterous as the chaste Grecian temple in a rocky 

 dingle. The ground should be^chosen or arranged so as to persuade 

 the observer that he is really in Russia, and the house should be 

 composed of the same timber-trees used in the formation of cottages 

 in that country, and be of the same form and size. The internal con- 

 struction and furniture should also come as near to reality as possible. 

 Hermitages and caves are also interesting when proper situations 

 are chosen : in these should be kept a small collection of books calcu- 

 lated for private study, and the furniture of this sequestered retreat 

 should be exactly of that simple and useful nature as would be suit- 

 able to a recluse. 



ARTICLE VII. 



ON THE CULTURE OF DAPHNE ODORA. 



BY C. T., COLE GARDENS, HERTS. 



Observing in your valuable Cabinet, of March, 1841, page 69, 

 that one of your numerous subscribers requests to be informed of the 

 best method of cultivating that much admired plant, the Daphne 

 Odora, and as it is now the blooming season with that deservedly 

 esteemed plant, I should advise your correspondent to pot the plant 

 in peat and sandy loam, or equal portions of peat and loam, with a 

 little sand added, taking care first to drain the pot with plenty of 

 drainage, that the plant may not get what is termed water-logged, 

 which is very injurious to it. Particular care is requisite too not to 

 let it get dry, for if it does, it often proves fatal to the scented flowers. 



