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upon a change of residence, be transferred to another house with 

 as much propriety as any article of furniture. 



This method of fastening, Messrs. Groebl & Volkmar, present 

 as their peculiar improvement upon the European marquetry, and 

 upon all tonguing and grooving hitherto employed in flooring of 

 every description. The process, whether accomplished with or 

 without machinery, is what they have patented, and that, too, for 

 all purposes to which tonguing and grooving around an entire 

 perimeter may be applied. They, in fact, perform the process by 

 a machine, which, as being merely instrumental in the process, 

 does not require to be patented, and which, as only and interme- 

 diary thing, they do not place on exhibition here — wishing to 

 show the results arrived at rather than the means subsidiary to 

 them. 



Again, they would respectfully submit that the present appli- 

 cation of the process, as well as the process itself, is highly meri- 

 torious. There can surely be nothing more chaste and tasteful 

 than the ornamental wooden flooring so extensively used, and so 

 much admired abroad, in its fidelity to those correct principles 

 which constitute the ethics of genuine art, in its truthfulness to 

 nature, in its simple and unpretentious elegance, and in the almost 

 indefinite diversification of ornament attainable by variations in 

 the figures and colors of the pieces of wood employed; it is not 

 invidious to say that it should be preferred, in many cases, to mar- 

 ble, encaustic tiles, oil-cloths and carpets. Nothing can be better 

 adapted to halls, libraries, parlors, cabinets, club rooms, the aisles 

 of churches, staircases, and the offices and studios of professional 

 and literary men, than this improved marquetry, in the several 

 varieties, differing in expense as well as style, which can be sup- 

 plied. The method of manufacture employed by Messrs. Groebl 

 & Volkmar, greatly diminishes the usual cost of such a flooring. 



[A bronze medal awarded. 



Solidified Milk. 

 R. C. Hepburn, Dutchess county, N.Y.; R. Allstrum & Co., agents, 



23 South street, New- York. 



This article is manufactured in Dutchess county, New- York; 

 the factory now in operation being capable of producing 1,000 lbs. 

 of the dry milk per day. 



