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and airy structure by tbe last week iu September. They should 
have copious syringings every evening, when indoors, with abundance 
of air, day and night, until the blossoms open, when not only 
syringing must be discontinued, but all condensation of moisture on 
the leaf or flower be cautiously avoided. To this end all waterings 
must be performed in the morning, and a slight fire through the 
day, with a free circulation of air, to carry away all humidity of 
atmosphere by the closing time iu the evening, after which period 
the fire must be only sucb as will just keep away frost; and it is 
well to allow a little egress of air at the back of the house for the 
escape of atmospheric moisture all night. A good roof covering, in 
lieu of a fire, would, no doubt, be excellent, and tend to prevent 
condensed steam on the blossoms. As compost, I have found tbe 
following everything that can be desired, viz., one half-rotten turf 
of strong and fat loam, and the other half composed of equal parts 
half mould and good rotten manure, to which add a good sprinkling 
of rough charcoal dust, and another of sharp and lively sand, and a 
handful or two of fine bone waste. 
EMBELLISHMENTS OF TBE GARDEN. 
O embellish a garden well, needs a discriminating and in 
some cases a severe taste. Whatever errors may be 
committed in the laying out, the planting, and the dis- 
position of colours, will more readily escape the eye or 
meet with forgiveness from the critic, than the injudicious 
adoption of any kind of special embellishment. Yet if the leading 
principles of gardening tastes are kept in view, the smallest plot 
may he so ornamented as to convey an impression of luxurious 
completeness, and present at all seasons a wealthy fulness that shall 
prove its owner to be an artist in the work ; and the garden of 
ample dimensions and varied features, will have its several beauties 
enhanced and brought out by exactly similar means. We do not 
value a picture for tbe extent of its canvas, but for the perfect 
development of its story through the medium of form and colour, 
light and shade ; and though artifices for concealing the dimensitns 
of a piece of ground are, in most cases, illegitimate and unworthy, 
the more that ground, whether large or small, is embellished with 
special ornaments adapted to it and tastefully disposed, the more 
will its extent be really enlarged, because it will offer more and more 
to interest the eye, and occasion pleasurable emotions in the mind. 
In this as in other things, ornament may be carried to 
excess ; yet in the higher and architectural departments excess is 
not so much to be feared, when we remember how lavishly the 
gardens of ancient times were adorned with colonades, terraces, 
statues, fountains, and other productions of the quarry and the 
chisel ; and how that same fulness of expression was sustained in 
the princely gardens which were the models of Italian art in land- 
scape, and which remain to us on canvas and in books as examples 
