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venient use. The enormous lights occasionally met with are 
things to be avoided, for not only does it require the strength 
of a giant to handle them, but they must be more or less 
twisted in the process, and we have always found that unwieldy 
lights are soon worn out, while those of convenient size last 
any length of time if fairly taken care of. On this subject, 
however, a chapter will be given further on. 
It is proper, perhaps, that we should say a word here about 
the many kinds of frames and protectors that have been 
patented of late years. It has been our misfortune to try 
them all, and we should repent the waste of time and money 
had we not gained experience, which enables us to advise our 
readers to consider twice before they embark once in any of 
these things. Well-made pits and frames are always tidy and 
weather-proof ; the patent things that are founded on bricks 
and tiles are apt to be always out of joint, and it is sometimes 
impossible to give air or get anything from their insides, 
whether a lettuce or a handful of violets, without breaking 
more glass than the lettuce or violets are worth. 
“ IIow various his employments, whom the world 
Calls idle ; and who justly, in return, 
Esteems that busy world an idler too ! 
Friends, hooks, a garden, and perhaps his pen, 
Delightful industry enjoyed at home, 
And nature in her cultivated trim 
Dressed to his taste, inviting him abroad— 
Can he want occupation, who has these ? 
Will he be idle, who has much t’ enjoy ? 
Proud of his well-spread Avails, he vieAVS his trees, 
That meet, no barren interval betAveen, 
With pleasure more than even their fruits afford ; 
Which save himself Avho trams them, none can feel. 
'These therefore are his OAvn peculiar charge ; 
No meaner hand may discipline the shoots, 
None but his steel approach them.” 
Cowpue, 
