ADVERTISEMENTS. 



OUR NEW BAMBOO SHADING. 



In A compartment the Bamboo Mat partially unrolled, with box and top complete 

 for its protection the mode of rolling up the staples, at the bottom of the box 

 inside, to which the upper edge of the Mat is attached by stout twine are shewn. 



In B compartment the cover of the box has been removed to shew the Mat rolled up 

 when not in use. 



CC are the wooden bearers upon which the Mat is supported, 10 to 12 inches above the 

 level of the glass ; iron rods may be used for the same purpose. 



DD, the screw pulleys round which the cords run to pull up the Mat. 



To let down the shading, loosen the cords which have been fastened to the 

 hooks placed in the front wall below the glass, the Mats will fall down by their own 

 weight. In rolling up again, see that the cord hangs straight down the middle of the 

 Mat, then pull up steadily and fasten. 



The Mats aie fastened above to 5 or 6 staples, firmly driven in at the bottom of the box 

 cover inside, by tying to them the thick bamboo at the end of the Mat, with strong twine. 



It is as well to have a wooden roller tied by string to the lower end of the Mat, to make 

 it roll up more easily. 



In our variable climate, even during the spring and summer months, although one 

 day may be bright and cloudless as in the tropics, yet the chances are that in the next 

 we may not get a glimpse of the sun, and this fitful condition alike holds good from 

 hour to hour. This points to the necessity of whatever shading is used being of a move- 

 able description, for when fixed, not only is it there intercepting the light from the 

 plants on the very many days which we get through the spring and summer, wherein the 

 sun never makes its appearance, but even in the brightest weather it is over the plants 

 for many hours from morning dawn to the dusk of evening, when it is not only not 

 required for the purpose of Avarding oif the sun, but is inflicting a positive injury by 

 reducing the amount of light. The same holds good with all sorts of compositions with 

 with which the glass is smeared. Gardeners' Chronicle, vol. x., p. 492. 



OUR NEW BAMBOO SHADING consists of light bamboo rods, a little stouter 

 and stronger than reeds, varying from 3-16ths to 3-8ths inch in diameter, the smaller 

 size alternating with the larger size, Avhile stouter rods, f-inch thick, are interspersed 

 here and there to strengthen the whole, interlaced about every 9 inches apart with a 

 coarse strong and durable twine made from the outer husk of the Cocoa-nut, in widths 

 of from 8 to 10 feet, and in lengths as ordered. The rods when put up run horizontally, 

 the Mat being perfectly flexible and very light, can, when in use, be easily rolled up by a 

 cord fastened above, passing downward and beneath the Mat, round the roller of the Mat at 

 its lower margin, then up again to the top, whence passing over a screw pulley, the cord 

 descends again to the bottom of the Mat, where it is within reach of the manipulator. 



THE NEW PLANT AND BULB COMPANY, 

 LION WALK, COLCHESTER. 



