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Plan, Sfc, of a small span-roofed Pit, 



ing the hardier species of green-house plants, intended to be 

 planted out in the open garden in the spring. The principal 

 novelties in it, I apprehend, consist in the method of admitting 

 the air at the bottom, which secui'es the plants from damping 

 off; the ease with which the lights are removed, being hung on 

 with hooks and eyes ; and the method of covering the lights with 

 mats. These are fastened at one end to the ridge of the roof, 

 and at the other to a roller, the whole length of the pit; by which 

 the mats are readily run down over the lights, and kept down, 

 without any fastening, by the weight of the rollers : they are also 

 Useful for shading either side, as may be required. 



Mr. Allcard wishes it to be known, that he has had this, and 

 other more extensive, useful, and ornamental erections, put up in 

 his garden, entirely by Mr. Thomas Dalby, builder, of this place, 

 whose judgment and good taste in such buildings entitle him to 

 encouragement. Mr. Allcard will have much pleasure in allow- 

 ing any gentleman to inspect what has been done here, by ap* 

 plication to him. 



Stratford Green, Essex, Oct. 24. 1835. 



We owe an apology to the author of the above paper, and to 

 Mr. Allcard, for not having inserted this article sooner. The 

 real truth is, that, soon after it was received, it was put into the 

 hands of our architectural draughtsman (Mr. Robertson), to 

 reduce the drawings, and transfer them to wood for the engraver. 

 This he does at his own house; and being, soon after he received 

 them, seized with a lingering illness, he was unable to proceed 

 with them till quite lately. The drawings belonging to several 

 other articles have, unfortunately, been in the same predicament; 

 and we, in consequence, owe similar apologies to Mr. Hogg, jun., 

 of New York, to M. Ranch of Vienna, to the author of a trans- 

 planting machine in use in Ireland, and to some others, as will 

 appear by the dates of their respective papers, when we publish 

 them. — Cond. 



