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Mr. Editor : When I inquired about the use of rubber in glazing garden 

 sashes, I considered its great advantage over putty to be, that it would answer at 

 least equally well, to save breakage of glass by concussion, and enable broken 

 panes to be much more readily and cheaply replaced ; that is, to have a strip of 

 suitable rubber cloth underneath, and the usual good fastening by points above. 



I had in mind a very interesting description of Beard's Patent Glass Houses, 

 in the Journal of Horticulture, vol. ii. p. 50. This, though an iron frame struc- 

 ture, has some principles of construction that would be of '^enefit in a woode*^ 



