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

 spectator. How it loots 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 "tiothing 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 efiect. 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. 



