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eries, pineries, and houses devoted to hard wooded plants, every 

 cultivator endeavors to prevent a prostration of the faculties of 

 his plant when in a growing tender state by intercepting intense 

 sunshine, at the same time admitting as much light as possible ; 

 but Miien such plants have completed their growth, their manifes. 

 tations alone will teach us how indispensable is a due amount of 

 this agent to the ripening of their wood ; and how is this to be 

 accomplished beneath frosted glass ? The appearance of the 

 Vines and plants grown under such disadvantageous circumstan- 

 ces will afford occular demonstrations of the evil. The wood will 

 be long-jointed, sappy, and watery, the leaves will have long 

 slender petioles, and lamina of meagre size etiolated and pallid, 

 thus deteriorating them until they become so constitutionally im- 

 paired as to be valueless in all their growing, flowering, and 

 other properties, even if exposed to a clearer medium and more 

 favorable circumstances hereafter. With such unfavorable demon- 

 strations and impracticabilities attending this mode of shading, 

 why not resort to a more expeditious, easier, and cheaper method, 

 which will possess greater advantages and incur less risks than 

 the method in question ? — Gardener^ Chronicle. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



Village and Farm Cottages. D. Appkton ^ Co., N. Y. 



A large number of works on rural architecture have been re- 

 cently published, the majority of which, however, have been 

 chiefly confined to such buildings as are both difficult and expen- 

 sive to construct. Until the work under notice, none were exclu- 

 sively devoted to that class whose means are limited to the 

 possession of a few hundred dollars. Any country carpenter can 

 build a house modelled after a dry goods box ; but can such a 

 house be elegant ? — can it express any other purpose than simply 

 a sort of waiting place, in anticipation of death's visit. It really 

 is nothing more than a shelter from inclement weather. The 

 people who reside in these uncouth packing boxes, have ambition 

 very much like those who cast anchor in palaces. They desire to 

 live beautifully, but they have been educated to believe that an 

 approach to elegance, is the road to bankruptcy and destitution. 



