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rivetted across the 
bottom and up each 
side, to give them 
sufficient strength to 
bear the weight of 
the Ivy well up when 
the rods are covered. 
To each box are 
two moveable wire 
handles, which allow 
them to be dropped 
conveniently into that 
of the screen, or taken 
out as required. The 
rods of the zinc 
screens are 6 inches 
lower than those of 
the other, which al¬ 
lows the gilt part to 
be clear, allowing a 
few of the top sprays 
of the Ivy to grow 
over the wire, which 
is fastened carelessly 
about the higher part 
of jfy. 1. 
Cliveden . 
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CHRONICLES OF A TOWN GARDEN.—No. X. 
“The glory has departed” is all I can write about my out-door garden. 
What was ere now filled with 
“ Bright flow’rets in the sunlight shining. 
Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day,” 
is now a waste ; cold winds, and dry weather, have done their work thoroughly 
and well, and these forces of nature will soon subside into the ocean calm of 
wintry rest. No more 
“ The gate of many a fairy palace 
Opes to the ringing bugle of the bee. 
And every flower-cup is a golden chalice, 
Wine-filled, in some grand elfin revelry : ”— 
No more, without-doors, till spring returns : and then, at the waving of her 
magic wand, shall there rise into existence once again her “charmed world,” 
in every roadside, in every hedgerow, scattered over every field and dale: 
and we, 
“ With gleesome hearts in verdant plain 
Shall see them leaping in the spring-time light.” 
But within-doors already the great transformation scene has begun to be 
visible. Like the very faintest streaks of light that by the hand of morning 
are pencilled in the eastern heavens—the first sportive traces of the great 
master hand in the formation of the magnificent panorama of the day—like 
these soft lines of light is the appearance of the first traces in the develop¬ 
ment of bulb life. Already 
“ Quaint little eyes from grassy nooks are peering.” 
