4 ON AN ORNAMENTAL STAGE 1 OK A i XUWKK-GARDEN, 



construction be at the back of a house in a confined place, the 

 lowest trough would do for climbing plants, such requiring, in 

 general, a great depth of soil. 



If constructed on a large scale, it might be made very orna- 

 mental, and would form a handsome termination view from a house ; 

 or it would form a pretty object for the centre of a flower-garden, 

 having the construction circular, hexagonal, or octagonal, &c. 



Plants thus grown require very little more water than when 

 grown in the border. I have tried the plan for two years, and 

 speak from experience. The plants flourish well, and bloom most 

 profusely with such treatment. If there should be ahead of water 

 two feet above the highest trough, the whole might be very easily 

 watered, by placing lead pipes, with holes two inches apart, along 

 the front edge of each trough. The ends of such pipes must be 

 soldered into the next range of pipe above, and so on up to the 

 cistern ; or be connected with a head of water from some other 

 source. The water turned into the horizontal pipes lying in the 

 troughs, would be showered out upon the plants they contained. 



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The plan (Jig. 2.) repre- 

 sents a pyramid of flower- 

 pots, upon the same prin- 

 ciple as the troughs, each 

 pot standing upon a small 

 hollow pier or supporter, 

 resting in the bottom of the 

 pot below. The space within 

 the pier (say constructed, 

 for the larger pots, with 

 bricks laid flat) must be 

 filled with coarse sand or 

 small gravel, so that the 

 drainage may be complete 

 from top to bottom. Next 

 season, I purpose erecting a pyramid of this description, and intend 

 to plant it with rock plants, or some of ether kinds that will be 

 suitable. Perhaps the Conductor will oblige me with a list of 

 kinds likely for the purpose,* 



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* Wc will attend to it, having for some time had several constructions of a similar 

 kind under our own management. — Cond. 



