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plants will suit such places as we now refer to ? In 

 them, in glazed frames, from the simplest kind, com- 

 posed of a box without bottom and a pane of coarse 

 glass as a top, to an orchid palace, of which one is 

 described above, for preserving within view of the 

 sitting-room choice exotics during their greatest 

 beauty, may be permanently grown or temporarily 

 kept vast numbers of plants of various kinds as yet 

 untried in such places. Grlazed frames can readily 

 be made to be taken asunder ; and the less hardy 

 Yuccas, and many of the soft- wooded families, Aloes, 

 some Agaves, &c., thrive perhaps better where only 

 the top is glass and the sides wire- work, than with 

 the closeness of ordinary frames. 



For encouragement in overcoming difficulties in 

 such places as we now speak of, we may look to or 

 read of the devices to which the Japanese had re- 

 course before the use of glass was known in their 

 gardening. We learn something of this in Mr. For- 

 tune's work on Japan. 



My late friends, Dr. Eobert Smith, of Eccles-street, 

 and Mr. Eobert Callwell, of Herbert-place, made the 

 first good collections of native ferns which I have 

 known in Dublin. Dr. Smith, who was a very learned 

 and eminent man in his own profession, commenced 

 his collection many years ago, and from time to time 

 as it increased he had recourse to various contri- 

 vances in his dwelling-house and small garden at its 

 rere. And he so admired the Killarney fern, Tricho- 

 mancs, that, in addition to many small cases of it 



