544 GARDEN MANAGEMENT. 



fering materially with the pots which occupy the centre of the bed. These 

 stakes should be six feet high, and five inches by four in size, and they should 

 he driven at least 20 inches into the solid soil ; the top rail being sufficiently 

 strong to receive and support the shutters. A similar row of stakes, with top 

 rail, are driven on each side of the bed, and about two feet and a half from it. 

 Three inches on each side of the bed is another row of six stakes of equal 

 strength, but only 18 inches above the ground ; the top being notched in the 

 form of the letter V. — The use of these stakes will be obvious ; they are to 

 receive and support the lower end of the shutters, — the central top rail when 

 ■closed ; and the outside rails are to receive and support them when it is desired 

 to throw them open. The engraving, which is a perspective view of the stage 

 Tialf filled, shows two shutters closed and two open. The opening between 

 the shorter stakes admits abundant ventilation, even when closed. 



1703. The shutters, each four yards long and three feet wide, when closed, 

 form a span-roofed pit open at the sides, three posts supporting each 

 shutter. They are made with feather-edged inch-deal, forming a soUd 

 • frame ; the centre may be deal, felt, or any material impervious to heavy 

 rains : if of glass, there should be an arrangement for shading with calico, or 

 some other material, to exclude the sun during the heat of the day ; and the 

 frames should be made to lap one over the other at the sides, and to meet at a 

 ^proper angle at the top, so as to form a ridge. 



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