ON THE DRAPERY OF COTTAGES AND GARDENS. 



and permits every blossom that opens, to be seen by the admiring 

 spectator. How it looks at first, and afterwards, in a complete state, 

 we have endeavored to give you a faint idea in this little sketch. 



" What shall those of 

 us do who have neither 

 cottages nor gardens ? 

 who, in short, are confined 

 to a little front and back 

 yard of a town life, and 

 yet who love vines and 

 climbing plants with all 

 our hearts ? " 



That is a hard case, 

 truly. But, now we think 

 of it, that ingenious and 

 clever horticulteur, Mon- 

 sieur Van Houtte, of Ghent, 

 has contrived the very thing 

 for you.* Here it is. He 

 calls it a " Trellis Mobile ; " 

 and if we mistake not, it 

 will be quite as valuable 

 for the ornament and de- 

 fence of cities, as the Garde 

 Mobile of the Parisians. It 

 is nothing more than a 

 good strong wooden box, 

 upon wooden rollers. The box is about three feet long, and the 

 double trellis may be eight or ten feet high. In this box the finer 

 sorts of exotic climbers, such as passion flowers, everblooming roses, 

 maurandias, ipomea learii, and the like, may be grown with a 

 charming effect. Put upon wheels, as this itinerant bower is, it 

 may be transported, as Mr. Van Houtte says, " wherever fancy dic- 

 tates, and even into the apartments of the house itself." And here, 

 having fairly escorted you back to your apartments, after our long 



Movable Trellis. 



* Flore des Serres. 



