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40 and with wooden frames same as for "windows. AH that it needs is to fit tne 
ghisses into the frames and seal the sides up tightly with putty. 
The frame, as it sets into the lower wooden box, should also be fastened well 
with putty, to make it tight ; and on the outside you may fasten a very pretty 
little moulding, which will cover the top of the wood, 
and set snugly up to the glass. You will of course 
take care to have a little door cut in the back glass, 
say about six inches by eight or ten, opening or 
sliding, whenever necessary to introduce water, or 
remove insects and dead leaves. 
In Fig. 42, the upper pane maybe made movable 
Next you will need a tray to go inside the wooden 
frame work. This should be of nearly the same size 
as the box, but smaller so as to fit inside. This 
tray should be constructed of zinc, and may be made 
with a double bottom of an inch in height, a small 
hole being cut in the upper one, for the purpose of 
carrying off any surplus water. The filhng and 
planting have already been described. Place some broken charcoal, or fine 
brick or gravel, in tlie bottom of the upper pan, and then 3'our compost over 
this. If your wood is well moiMded, and sides ornamented, the case will be a 
very handsome ornament. Cases such as we describe, are now made and sold 
at prices of from S-0 to $30, by all our large floral warehouses. 
Should you wish to construct a little rockery in the 
fei'nery, select pieces of stone, sharp pointed, or with 
rough jagged sides. You will often find them in some 
moist spot in the woods, already half covered with 
moss; then build them up one above the other until 
you have made the form of an arch. Start the stones 
from the very bottom of the tray, mix the soil well 
with them wherever possible, into all the interstices, 
and if it is necessary to get cement to make them 
firm, do so. Then set set your ferns in all the rugged 
interstices of the stones, wherever you have placed 
the earth, and they will soon cover it with their leaves, 
and their roots will reach into all the crevices. 
Design No. 40, is about the size we have described, 
constructed in a more than usually ornamental style. It is very suitable for 
all kinds of ferns, and Lycopocliums, Small Orchids, small species of the Draca 
ena, Croton pidiim, Cr variegaUim, Aphelandra Leopoldi, Gymmostacltys, Vcr 
shaffeltii, ErantJiemum, ijineum, Passijlora trifasciata, Alocassia, Caladitim, and 
Fltfonia argentea. 
Fig. 41 shows one of the simplest of all fern decorations in the form of a neat 
:.— Arbovette. 
