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and not very dear • but after you get them comes the -writing, 

 and that is the difficulty, or the stamping, or whatever it may 

 be — ^usually a. failure, and always a labour requiring some taste 

 and neatness. Now you can get these labels deeply, and neatly, 

 and plainly impressed by this M. Aubert at three francs per too, fur- 

 nishing him with a list of the sorts required in the first instance. 

 As anybody who has meddled with such matters knows, to get such 

 labels deeply and well impressed would be very cheap at three or even 

 five francs the loo, even without considering the cost of the labels 

 themselves. I need therefore hardly say that being able to pro- 

 cure them ready to attach to roses, fruit trees, &c., at tliree francs per 

 100 is a great advantage. Our labelling generally is a great mis- 

 take, and this surely is a step towards having plants decently 

 labelled without incurring great expense. Small ones for number- 

 ing are sold at one franc per loo. 



Garden Chairs. — ^We will next turn to chairs, of which there 

 are numerous kinds to be seen. The kind of cliair which may be 

 seen in quantities in all public places in Paris, with a convex seat 

 made of elastic strips of metal springing from the sides and joined 

 together in a little central piece, was much 

 admired by English visitors. Fig. 84 repre- 

 sents it. There are many modifications of this, 

 the best being one in which the seat made of 

 these united bands is covered with a slight 

 wire network. These chairs stand any weather, 

 and are nevertheless as elastic and comfort- 

 able as any drawing-room chair. The neatest 

 and most elegant and comfortable conservatory, 

 pleasure-ground, or summer-house chair ever 

 seen is composed of three of these seats united 

 in one, the larger framework of the back and Fig. 84. 



sides being made of charmingly rustic iron about 

 as thick as the thumb, the smaller spray being tied to the larger 

 by imitation osier twigs. This was shown by M. Carre, the maker 

 of the greater number of chairs in this way. 



