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ing purposes, the two last exposures are the most 

 favorable ; particularly if your terrace has open 

 space enough before it to permit the air and the 

 sun to reach it without much obstruction. 



Terrace exposed to the North. 

 Let us take the worst hypothesis first: your 

 terrace is fully to the north ; in all other direc- 

 tions it is hemmed in by lofty buildings, so that 

 the sun has the right to visit it the 35th of every 

 month, and then only. You have, however, done 

 very well, ladies, to have a terrace constructed, 

 even under these unfavorable conditions. At its 

 centre have a wooden column erected, which is 

 to sustain a trellised roof consisting of four tri- 

 angular parts. The Irish ivy will quickly over- 

 run this, covering it with its thick verdure. A 

 round table, through the centre of which the 

 column passes, will be a convenience for placing 

 your books and work upon, also for taking 

 breakfast and tea there, when, oppressed within 

 doors by the heats of summer, you take refuge 

 in the open air, under the shelter afforded by that 

 dense foliage. One side of the terrace being 



