THE LADIES* MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
153 
FLOWER-STAND AND AWNING FOR TULIPS. 
I am very much in want of a flower-stand which will take up very 
little room ; but all that I have seen branch so much as to be quite 
unmanageable. I also want a portable cover for tulips—I mean a frame 
that can be taken to pieces when done with. 
Bath, April 12 th, 1841. 
The flower-stand (Jig. 43) was first made for Mrs. Fox, at St. Ann’s 
Fig. 43. 
Hill, Chertsey ; and its stages 
turn round every way, so that 
the flowers in it may be all 
seen by any one sitting near it, 
without rising to go round it. 
Its height from the floor is five 
feet; the diameter of the lowest 
stage is one foot four inches; 
that of the second one foot one 
inch; that of the third ten 
inches; and that of the fourth 
eight inches. The wire border 
is four inches high; the bottom 
of the stages are of wood, and 
all the rest is iron. 
Fig . 44 shows an awning for 
a tulip bed, consisting of two 
blinds, let down or rolled up 
like a common window blind. 
The structure which supports 
this consists of four posts ( a ), 
which rest on the ground, and 
which are held together by the 
frame ( b ). At each end the 
posts are surmounted by a 
semicircular piece of wood (c), 
in which is fixed the roller (d), 
which works with a pulley at 
e. The bed is generally made 
about nine feet long and four feet broad; and the canvas being cut and 
sewed together so as to be of a proper size to cover the frame, and to 
reach to the ground on both sides of it, a slip of wood is nailed, or 
passed through the hem, at each end, as is done with a common window- 
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