Countries, §c. By Mr. John Lindley. 19® 

 Description of the Boxes. 



They were made of stout inch board well fastened together. 

 Their height was three feet, length four feet, breadth one 

 foot eight inches (Fig. 1). Twenty inches from the bottom 

 they sloped off like a penthouse till the top was not more 

 than two inches and a half wide. The sloping part on each 

 side was closed by a shutter (Fig. 1. a. a.) formed of wooden 

 bars two inches wide and two inches asunder, connected by a 

 cross-rail at their ends. To the inside of these, panes of stout 

 coarse glass were fixed by means of narrow slips of tin fastened 

 to the centre of the bars where necessary, and well puttied in. 

 (Fig. 3. a. a.) The shutters were moveable by means of hinges 

 on their lower side, and in fine weather were kept open by 

 hooks ( Fig. 2. a. a. ) fixed within three or four inches of the 

 top into each side of the end of the boxes, and fitting into a 

 staple in the corresponding edge of the shutter ; they were 

 long enough to sustain the shutter, when open, in a perpendi- 

 cular position (Fig. 2. b.) The shutters fell down so as to close 

 the boxes completely in rough weather, and were kept together 

 by two hooks fixed in the upper edge of one shutter, and 

 catching into a corresponding staple in the opposite shutter. 

 (Fig. 4.) A piece of tarpawling (Fig. 1. b. b.) was nailed to 

 the top of the boxes, and in rough weather was unrolled 

 and fell down over the sides, so as to protect them from the 

 sea spray. In fine weather, when the shutter was opened, it 

 was rolled up again, and tied together with two pieces 

 of cord so as not to interfere with the shutters opening 

 and closing. The trees were planted in square wooden 

 boxes, just large enough to contain a single plant, and per- 

 forated with holes in their sides and bottom. (Fig. 5. a. a.) 



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