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the designs, cut out in brown paper, and then covered 

 with greenery, &c., pinned upon it. 



Fig. 2. — Here fine wire should be used to bind the 

 small strands of green upon a stronger wire ; for, if 

 string only be used, the diamonds will not be exact. 

 The flowers sewn first on to about two inches of black 

 tape, and after the lattice-work is put up, fastened on 

 at the crossings. 



Plate XI. 



Fig, I. — The zigzags in this pattern must be made 

 separately, on strips of strong brown paper. If the pillar 

 be plastered, they may be nailed top and bottom ; if it 

 be of stone, the joints in the masonry must be con- 

 sidered as much as possible ; or the zigzags may be 

 hung from a fine wire painted the colour of the pillar. 

 In the Plate, the wire is shown by a dotted line. 



Fig. 2. — Here the straight Hnes of greenery running 

 from top to bottom are best made by covering lengths of 

 tiling-laths with leaves, the length fitting in sufiiciently 



