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ball, and is carried along tlie transept to the back 
door. 
This walk will consist of two feet of iron grating, 
with hot-water pipes under; and on each side 
of that, two feet in width, will be laid in encaustic 
tiles. 
The ventilators are so arranged that large 
groups of them opeu with one handle ; and they 
are so finely balanced that a child could open 
or shut them. The frontage of the structure 
is one hundred and thirty-six feet. To the rear 
of this building there is a hot-house, about 
fifty feet long from east to west, and twenty- 
eight feet broad, for tropical and warm-climate ferns. 
At the east end of this fernery commences a long 
structure of two floors. The ground flat, which is of 
brickwork, will be used as boiler, potting, packing 
and counting rooms, and a soil store.' The upper flat 
is of wood and glass, and will be used to prepare 
plants for the palace. 
spring—a kind of dry-rot, apparently. The best way 
to keep them, after gradually drying off in the fall, is 
to set the pot into some drawer or closet (near the 
chimney, too) in a room that is never allowed to be¬ 
come really cold, I have found them very satisfactory 
plants for the adornment of my flower-stand on a 
covered piazza—they will not bear sun. One must be 
especially careful not to let the sun strike the pots, 
when starting them in the hot-bed. Mine are a lovely 
blue. If II. lias any other color I should be delighted 
to exchange with her, and hope she will write me at 
once on the subject. 
Mrs. J. H. Biggs. 
Washington Heights. 
THE NEW WINTER GARDEN 
AT EDINBURGH. 
An elegant structure has been recently erected at 
Edinburgh, Scotland, for the purpose of a Winter 
Garden and Public Conservatory, concerning which 
the horticultural world of Great Britain have exhibited 
a worthy enthusiasm ; public interest in its successful 
establishment has very generally been elicited. We 
are glad of the opportunity to present a fine engraving 
of it, which appears on this page. The construction, 
detail, plans, and idea of it are well worth copying 
by some of the public-spirited citizens and horticul¬ 
turists of this country. 
The structure has been admirably planned and 
adapted to the purpose intended. 
SOMETHING CHEAP AND GOOD 
We cannot all have the costly and highly 
merited fernery, Wardian cases, and propai 
boxes, but no lover of flowers is so reduced in cii 
New Winter Garden at Edinburgh, 
In the front there are four massive stone pillars, 
surmounted by five clay naves. The building is in 
three stages, the upper roofs being convex glass roofs. 
Each stage of the roof is finished with elegant iron 
cresting, with finials on the points, which are seven in 
number. 
The roof is supported on iron pillars, connected by 
light ornamental iron-bronzed girders. 
The structure consists, internally, of a large hall, 
with a kind of transept, and a door leading out to the 
nursery behind. On the east side of this, the main 
part of the structure, are two smaller apartments, one 
to be used as a “ small flowering plant” room ; on the 
west side will be a waiting-room. The large hall, 
however, will be a real winter garden. It is sur¬ 
mounted by a fine dome, forty-five feet high. Under 
the dome will be a fire-clay fountain, seventeen feet 
high. The building has tables for flowers, about two- 
and-a-half feet wide, running along the walls. Inside 
of these a walk, six feet wide, goes all round the 
stances as not to be able to possess the following plain 
(yet extremely serviceable) combination, yes, and 
make it, too: Procure two sheets of window glass, 
9 by 12 inches, and two 12 by 16, and one 9 by 16; 
next obtain, or make, four nicely planed sticks, a foot 
long and a half-inch square; place the four pieces of 
glass in the form of a box, and with glue or paste 
unite one stick at each inside corner; when dry, paste 
a one-inch ribbon up the seam at each corner, then, 
when all is dry, unite the 9 by 16 inch glass to the top 
with ribbon, in the same manner as the corners. Thus, 
at an outlay of not more than 75 cents, and about 
two hours’ labor, you have something that is equally 
as serviceable and looks as well (if you have used gay- 
colored ribbons) as a bell-glass costing three times the 
amount. 
The size need not be confined to the dimensions 
here given, but can be made larger or smaller, as cir¬ 
cumstances will admit. 
L. D. Snook. 
ACHIMENES. 
In a previous number of the Cabinet, H. speaks of 
having Aohimenes in a hanging basket, and of their 
being finer than those grown in greenhouses. I was 
also so fortunate last summer as to have the finest pot 
of Aohimenes I had ever seen. There were three 
bulbs in a five-inch pot, and, for two weeks certainly, 
thirty-four blossoms were expanded every morning. 
Of course it commenced more moderately, and was 
blooming at least two months. This unusual fhrifty- 
ness we thought was caused by their being home- 
raised bulbs ; that is, bulbs wintered in some warm 
room, and started in a hot-bed in spring, instead of 
making a long journey from some florist’s, which 
seems to impair their vitality. Achimenes are so 
beautiful, however, that one had better have them on 
any terms than do without them. 
I have repeatedly tried to keep the bulbs in a cellar, 
and invariably found them reduced to powder in th e 
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