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Where there is a quantity of plants to be kept in 

 these apartments, they should be disposed to the best 

 effect, and at the same time in such a manner as will 

 be most effectual to their preservation. A stage of 

 some description is certainly the best, and, of whatever 

 shape or form, it ought to be on castors, that it 

 may, in severe nights of frost, be drawn to the centre 

 of the room. The shape may be either concave, a 

 half circle, or one square side. The bottom step or 

 table should be six inches apart, keeping each succes- 

 sive step one inch farther apart, to the desired height, 

 which may be about six feet. Allowing the first step 

 to be about two feet from the floor, there will be five 

 or six steps, which will hold about fifty pots of a com- 

 mon size. A stage in the form of half a circle will hold 

 more, look the handsomest, and be most convenient. 

 We have seen them circular, and when filled appeared 

 like a pyramid. These do very well, but they must be 

 turned every day, or the plants will not grow regularly. 

 With this attention it is decidedly the best. Green is 

 the most suitable colour to paint them. 



