FEBRUARY. 



99 



well adapted to the purposes of shade as is always desirable, 

 is, notwithstanding, a neat structure, and may be made very 

 ornamental, if covered with suitable vines and climbing 



plants. It is particularly 

 adapted to public pleas- 

 ure grounds, of all kinds, 

 where a shelter from 

 storms is often as desira- 

 ble as from the burning 

 buttress! h pat Qf t[-^e summer's 



sun. The above is a 

 view of this structure. 



It is simply a six sid- 

 ed covered seat, with 

 buttresses between each 

 side or face, the roof 

 reaching over the seats 

 and buttresses as in the annexed diagram, (jig. A.) Care 

 should be taken to make two sides face southeast and south- 

 west as near as may be, and having none due south : one of 

 these has been erected at the Asylum at Wells, England. 



DIAGRAM OF THE FOREGOING DESIGN. 



P0ittj)li| iossip. 



Summer in England and United States. — It is very well known 

 that many trees not sufficiently hardy to endure our winters, may be raised 

 in England without any trouble, on account of the mildness of the British 

 winter. On the other hand, our summers are so much brighter, longer and 

 warmer than those of England, that some of our indigenous plants can be 

 successfully cultivated in that country only in a greenhouse. Such is the 

 Sahbatia stellaris, a wild flower of our wet meadows, found all the Avay from 

 Massachusetts to New Jersey. This plant was exhibited among the rari- 

 ties of the season, last summer, at the Chiswick show, by Mr. Ingram from 

 Frogmore. Mr. Ingram stated that the plant demands a warmer season than 

 England could afford it, and that he had been obliged to hasten its growth 

 by the warmth and protection of a greenhouse. It may not be out of place 

 to remark in this connection, that the English florists are far better acquaint- 

 ed than American florists with our indigenous flowers and other plants. The 



