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Rustic Adornments. 
kinds : some are portable, as shown at Figs. 3 and 5 ; others a fixture, as at 
Fig. 12 ; whilst another type (Figs. 13 and 14) is also portable, but of different 
construction to that represented by Figs. 3 or 5. The first type of portable 
propagator is a popular one, its handy form enabling it to be used in the 
dwelling-room, greenhouse, or in the open air. There are many kinds 
manufactured and sold by firms who make a speciality of their construction? 
their cost varying from one to three pounds, according to size, etc. But as it 
is not a difficult matter to make a serviceable one, we give below a few 
particulars as a guide to those who care to undertake the construction of one 
for themselves. Fig. 3 represents a simple kind, which anyone able to handle 
carpenters' tools with a fair amount of skill may make at a cost of 8s. 6d., 
according to the following estimate :— 
Wood ... 
Glass ... 
Wire netting 
Cocoanut mat 
Cocoanut fibre 
Lamp ... 
Copper Tacks 
The top is divided into three compartments, to take three sheets of glass. 
Size over all, tour feet by two feet, four inches. The front top board is 
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Fig. 4. 
sloped to avoid any shadow. From the top of back to the bottom 
of the cocoa-nut fibre refuse is fifteen inches, and the depth of fibre 
about eight inches. Below the latter is a common cocoanut-fibre mat, 
laid on a platform of three-eighths of an inch galvanized wire-netting. 
