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what into the room, and the entire interior inclosed with glass sides or doors as a 

 partition from the room. In every case that has come to our notice, where plants 

 have been separated alike from the dry injurious air of the living room and the 

 outside atmosphere, there has been the highest success. It is easy to attain a 

 good uniform temperature, and the noxious fumes of the gas from stove, grate or 

 gas burners, are fully protected against. The design introduced here, (Fig. 7,) 

 is a glass case constructed in front of a window and projecting into the room with 

 a door opening into it so that it can be easily entered. It would be well to build 

 the floor of this house of wood, and a little higher than that of the room so that 

 if necessary it can be removed without injury to the house. The lower portions 

 of the case to the height of about two feet should be of wainscot. Inside the 



Fig. 8 Fig. 9. 



cabinet this patieling is lined with leaden troughs communicating with each 

 other, and having a slight slope towards another trough lower than all the rest; 

 it should be so contrived, that any water drainingfrom the pots or boxes containing 

 the plants, may run off into the lower trough which should have no flower pots in it. 

 In these troughs should be placed wooden or slate boxes filled with earth in 

 which climbing plants are placed alternately with Orange Trees, Camellias or 

 flowering shrubs, so that they can be seen from the room. It is supposed, also, 

 that the outside window is a bow-window or at any rate projects beyond the sides 

 of the house. It should also have a sliding window at the top or bottom in case 

 ventilation is desired, but cold air must not be admitted without imperative neces- 

 sity. This design may be on too large a scale for ordinary purposes, but it serves 

 to illustrate the idea that plants always thrive best when placed in rooms entirely 

 by themselves. In such a cabinet a most glorious opportunity is afforded for 

 decorating the sides of the interior with climbing vines, the ivy, convolvulus, or any 

 other with showy colored flowers. 



