THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
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student will have laid a groundwork for 
understanding the more complicated les- 
sons that will treat on perspective, which 
when presented to the unprepared mind 
are an obstacle that puzzles and confuses, 
and is very littLe understood by many an 
accomplished artist, who depends more 
on manipulation and natural instinct than 
upon complicated methods. 
It will be found that by placing a num- 
ber of books on the table and studying 
Fig. 5. 
Home-made Hanging Basket. 
BY A. W. ROBERTS. 
THE variety of materials which may be 
applied to the construction and orna- 
mentation of hanging baskets is almost 
infinite. Amongst others, shells 
and corals, and ''sea mosses," 
afford material for constructing 
: unique and i^retty baskets, an ex- 
ample of which is shown in the 
engraving (Fig. 3). The founda- 
tion consists of a common earthen 
flower-pot which was first warmed 
in an oven, and then coated thick- 
ly on the outside with asphalt 
: cement. 
Around the rim of the pot are 
fastened fan-shaped masses of 
branch " coral, great care having* 
been taken to cement them firmly. 
A mass of coral is also fastened 
to the bottom of the pot, as 
shown in the cut. Around the centre of 
the pot is fastened a band of scallop shells 
of brightest colors. 
Figr. 1. 
their relative positions, good examples ' asphalt and the pure white of the coral, 
can be easily had ; other objects may be ' gives the pot a half-mourning look, which 
added of a more complicated form. is broken up by coating it with algae (sea 
The examples shown in Fig. 5 are sug- : weeds). Fifteen cents worth of Irish moss 
gestive of arrangements and changes in UChondrns crispus) was purchased, and 
position, of which it is so important to ! some Sertularia argentia obtained from 
have experimental knowledge. All this i Coney Island. These were made into 
must be learned by practice and industry, small bunches, the ends of which were 
from which alone comes skill. I dipped into hot asphalt till a knob was 
