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attention. A striking object 

 in a garden should be some- 

 thing handsome and costly. 

 Rustic-work, at best, is but 

 frail and temporary, and should 

 not be obtrusive. I do not, 

 however, object much to its 

 frailness, because, as it costs 

 little, the renewal is a cheap 

 source of amusement, and a 

 fresh exercise of the invention. 

 I am sensible that this paper 

 will be considered trifling by 

 many of your readers ; but it 

 may be useful to some who 

 are situated as I am ; to those 

 who are fond of gardening in 

 a small way, who would like to 

 have a pretty garden, and who 

 are not overburthened with 

 that necessary evil, money. 

 If you think that such persons 

 may take a hint or two from 

 my rambling details, perhaps 

 you will give them a place in 

 the Magazine. 



The doorway of which I have spoken was made by a car- 

 penter, and it certainly is the most perfect and satisfactory of 

 my rustic ornaments. The seat and the flower-basket were 

 made by myself and a common labourer who works here. All 

 the wood has the bark on. The basket {fig. 81.) is black birch 

 and hazel ; the top, which projects considerably, is of maple ; 

 thin slabs of that wood having been sawed off a rough log. It 

 is most tedious work, and requires a great deal of patience and 

 ingenuity. I let the creepers in the basket grow as thev like; 

 and they last year took very elegant forms. The moneywort 

 reached the ground, and would have taken root there, had I 

 permitted it. 



January 23. 1834. 



Art. VII. On the Employment of Vases as Receptacles for Plants in 

 Totvn Gardens; with some Remarks on their Use in Garden Scenery 

 in the Country. By the Conductor. 



Passing one day lately Mr. Austin's museum of works in 

 rtificial stone in the New Road, London, we were much struck 



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