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4. Paint the outside woodwork a pleasant 

 shade of green, not grass colour nor eau-de-nil, 

 but something in between. 



By observing these hints he may succeed 

 in taking the sting out of his glass box. The 

 gardeners who paint their greenhouses white, 

 picked out with lines of "Reckitt's blue," 

 hardly realize the crime they commit. They 

 are blinded to the inconsistencies by the glory 

 of the structure itself, and think not of it as 

 an element in the picture. For the same reason 

 they give it a place of honour in the centre of 

 the garden's width, and contrive that all roads 

 shall lead to it. 



The humble garden frame is another matter. 

 It sits snugly on the ground, and does not take 

 on airs. Its usefulness no one can deny, and 

 its place is in the vegetable plot. 



If, in spite of all, the gardener decides to 

 invest some part of his capital in "glass," 

 then let him beware of the cheap, jerry-built, 

 stock houses whose pictures adorn the adver- 

 tisement pages of the gardening journals. 

 They are not all bad, but they all have the 

 same family likeness on paper, and the inex- 

 perienced buyer is tempted to buy the largest 



