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ed, and the glass is laid in rows up and down the 
roof reaching from one bar to the next. 
The intermediate posts across the ends are four 
inches. At the top they carry a plate at the height 
of the lower edges of the sash bars at the side walls, 
and from this plate vertical sash bars extend up to 
the end bar of the roof. The door jambs also ex- 
tend up to the end bar of the roof. The posts be- 
low the plate are sheathed up in the same manner 
as the side walls. 
Usually the water is allowed to run out free at 
the ends of the gutters. If it is desired to carry 
this water away in pipes, a metal pipe, galvanized 
iron is best, should be run through the bottom of 
the gutter at tiie south end, and down to the ground 
inside the house into a tile pipe. The warmth of 
ihe house will keep the pipe from freezing and save 
much annoyance. 
The posts should be eight feet long. Red ce- 
dar or locust are the best, but they can seldom be 
had at a reasonable price. Common cedar is gen- 
erally used and should be live cut to be durable. 
( To ■t)c continued .) 
Design by Bellett Lawson, of 20 acre extension 
to an old burial ground. The land is slightly rol- 
ling, and has a decided slope from north to south. 
The circles in Montgomery lawn are designed to al- 
low carriages to turn, until the drives can be exten- 
ded across the ravine. 
Reform in the use of Bedding Plants. 
Samuel Parsons Jr., superintendent of parks 
of New York city, in a very instructive article in 
the March Scribner^ discusses the use of bedding 
plants outside the stiff and formal lines which seem 
to have brought upon this class of plants a certain 
disfavor. He draws attention to their infinite varie- 
ty of color and form, and to their vitality during 
the hotter months of the year, even when the orna- 
mental trees themselves yield to the weather. Not- 
withstanding the crusades against bedding plants 
by people of acknowledged taste and comprehen- 
sion of the landscape gardening art, everybody 
wants them and will have and use them. And Mr. 
Parsons asks: Why should’ nt they? 
He describes some actual practice in the em- 
ployment of bedding plants in less formal lines than 
those which seem usually to have limited their use, 
and urges reform in the disposition of this class of 
plants as there has been in the arrangement of cut 
flowers. 
“One of the chief reasons why many combina- 
tions of bedding plants are unsuccessful is because 
they are planted in the wrong place. The effect of 
an otherwise successful composition of form and 
color will be utterly destroyed if set in the wrong 
place.” 
The main features of every park and lawn are 
the buildings, fences, roads, paths, trees, shrubs and 
grass, and bedding plants can only serve for orna- 
mentation and to supplement the effect of these 
principal features, if they detract from the appear- 
ance of these or limit their value they are worse 
than out of place. 
“To say that bedding plants should be set out 
in strict artistic relation with the main features of 
the place does not mean a grfeat deal to the reader 
unless examples are given, and unfortunately ex- 
amples vary infinitely. It is easier perhaps to say 
what should not be done with bedding plants. Don’t 
plant masses of them on the lawn so as to dwarf 
and divide up the main expanse of the greensward, 
which should be the chief beauty in every place. As 
a rule, don’t set plants of any kind out in the mid- 
dle of the lawn. A pernicious practice is to sur- 
round single shade trees with little collars of col- 
euses and geraniums. Avoid that, as well as any 
arrangement that consists of an isolated group that 
is properly related to nothing else but the grass. 
Bedding plants look particularly well adjoining 
architectural structures. There is something about 
the palm and canna that makes them specially ef- 
fective planted against carved or cut .stone masses as 
a background. They seem part of the architecture 
itself, ornamenting and enhancing its charms like 
some deftly arranged drapery. Adjoining a house 
