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doors, and the jambs will be best made from pine 
also. California red cedar is now offered by some 
firms and would appear to be well adapted at least 
for sash bars. 
The mill work should be bought with the under- 
standing that every piece be perfect, sound, clear 
and free from sap. It should be carefully inspect- 
ed, piece by pieee, and any piece having the slight- 
est defect, peremptorily rejected. The poorest piece 
used determines the durability of the whole struc- 
ture. Good cypress is heavy and quite hard. Any 
pieces that are very light will decay quickly. 
All mill work should have been well primed 
with a coat of pure boiled linseed oil (there is much 
adulterated oil in the mar- 
ket) with a little genuine 
white lead. No lead should 
be bought except such as 
bears the name of some 
well known manufacturer 
with his guarantee that it 
is strictly pure. 
The gutter bottom will 
be furnished cut to lengths 
and “halved” together, of 
inch stuff. It is shown 
12 inches wide in the cut, 
making the gutter lo inch- 
es wide. Narrower bot- 
toms are often used but 
are not desirable. In time 
of heavy snow it is often 
necessary to walk in the 
gutter and shovel the snow 
out. It is difficult to work 
in a gutter less than lO 
inches wide. 
The bottom is laid on 
the brackets each piece in 
proper order. The joints 
are thickly coated with lead and oil mixed very 
thick. They are then brought together, accu- 
rately adjusted and fastened together by strong 
screws from above and below or by wrought 
nails carefully clinched, the heads well coun- 
tersunk to receive putty. This must be very 
carefully and securely done. We now have the bot- 
tom in a continuous strip the length of the house 
and lying on the brackets. It must be pushed north 
until the end is firmly against the shed. The edge 
of the sheathing groove must be brought exactly to 
the square end of the bracket, as shown in the cut, 
and the bottom screwed firmly to the bracket with 
4 heavy 3^ or 4 inch screws, heads countersunk. 
It is then successively screwed to each bracket 
south, carefully straightening and adjusting the bot- 
tom. The edge and top covered by sill (i) is then 
smeared with the thick lead, also the correspond- 
ing parts of the sill, it having been first fastened to- 
gether lengthwise as was the sill. Beginning at the 
north end it is fastened by strong screws or, better, 
by lag screws and washers screwed through into the 
edge of the bottom, being careful to bring the 
shoulder down snug to the top of the gutter bottom 
and to screw the sill well up against the bottom. 
The other sill (6) can now be applied in a similar 
way but need not be so firmly done because it car- 
ries no weight. No. i should have lag screws 
through it not less than 18 inches and better 12 in- 
ches apart. 
The upper piece of ship lap has the tongue 
dressed off and is then put in place, followed by the 
lower ones. This is well painted with crude oil both 
sides and at least one thickness of building paper 
put on outside, then the siding is applied. 
Chicago. Willis N. Rudd. 
{To be continued.) 
Monotony in Gardens. 
The following from an article in the Field of 
London, contains some good points: 
Perhaps the most grievous source of wasted ef- 
fort in gardens is monotony arising from everybody 
growing what his neighbor grows, so that we lose 
many chances of variety. Thus is comes that the 
nurseryman who grows new or rare trees or shrubs 
often finds them left on his hands, so that many 
country nurseries only grow a few stereotyped 
things, which means monotony to gardens. The tem- 
tation is strong on the part of trade growers to keep 
only things that people want to grow freely, and to 
recommend things, which are without beauty, and 
offensive in odor when in flower. The presence of 
such things is one of the causes of the miserable as- 
pect of the shrubberies in many gardens, which 
might be very beautiful with varied life. The pres- 
ence of many shrubs of little beauty often destroys 
by their vigor rare and beautiful garden vegetation. 
And this nursery rubbish having eaten up every 
good thing begins to eat up itself, and hence we see 
so many shrubberies worn out. Lovers of the gard- 
en could do something to check this fatal tendency 
to monotony by taking up some family of plants for 
themselves which perhaps they are unable to find in 
the nursery gardens near. But the fact remains 
that even nurseries devoted to special subjects may 
be too exclusive. We say so much to show that 
even in the branches of gardening that seem best 
known there are neglected sources of interest, while 
among little-known plants there are many. 
Specialists, such as rose growers, will often ex- 
clude good things from their collection. 
