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ance; this is one of the readiest construction, which serves as it 
were for a temporary purpose, but improvements may of course 
be made until the finished vase, represented in our cut, is reached. 
As a general rule, plants amply furnished with large leaves, such 
as the hydrangea and others, should be grown in baskets having 
a wide basis, and which are not very high, while, on the other 
hand, the light graceful form of the fuchsia, &c., is seen to more 
advantage when placed in an elevated vase; these little distinc¬ 
tions, however simple in themselves, make up the gross amount 
of pleasure derivable from a garden, and therefore are not to be 
neglected. 
It is worth while to remark, in the construction of rustic seats, 
arbours, and other similar things, that it is often desirable to have 
two pieces exactly alike, as, for instance, the back of the seat and 
the entrance or windows of a summer-house, or anything else 
which assumes the outline of an arch should have the same sweep 
from each side of the centre, or it has a one-sided imperfect ap¬ 
pearance ; now it might require a long search to find two pieces 
which had grown exactly alike, and the probability is that a pair 
of the kind could not be had, but this trouble is readily obviated, 
