. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. e to hisliking, he will turn his first construction toaccount as an out-house, store, barn, stockfeeding-house, stable, or what not. But if aman goes out to build his own hut, or loghouse, he must be sure and take proper tools;—not one of your fancy carpenters tool-chests,with fancy moulding planes, and all mannerof things for joinery work in London ; butgood substantial saws of sorts, planes, chisels,adzes, hammers of sizes, hatchets, and suchother articles as are used in plain substantialbuilding. It is not, ho
. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. e to hisliking, he will turn his first construction toaccount as an out-house, store, barn, stockfeeding-house, stable, or what not. But if aman goes out to build his own hut, or loghouse, he must be sure and take proper tools;—not one of your fancy carpenters tool-chests,with fancy moulding planes, and all mannerof things for joinery work in London ; butgood substantial saws of sorts, planes, chisels,adzes, hammers of sizes, hatchets, and suchother articles as are used in plain substantialbuilding. It is not, however, to be forgotten that thereare houses built complete in London to go intoemigrant lands, requiring only to be put to-gether like a bedstead ; and hundreds of modelsof these wooden houses may be seen any dayat Thompsons of Limehouse. If time beworth much, these would pay for the carriage;but still, there is nothing like going out withall the money in your pocket, and liberty tosettle wherever you can get a place the best,cheapest, and most to your mind. THE BORONIA. 145. THE BORONIA, ITS VARIETIES AND CULTURE. The Boronia is an Australian family ofvery pretty shrubby plants, of small stature,and evergreen habit, and generally producinga profusion of very conspicuous and orna-mental blossoms. In fact, there are two orthree of the cultivated species, which, as green-house shrubs, if they are not unrivalled, areat least unsurpassed by anything that we haveof the same class of plants ; and a dozen ofthe very best greenhouse plants that could beselected must include one species at least ofthis genus. At floral exhibitions, few amongthe many subjects there collected are moreconspicuous than the Boronias. They haveat the least one property which adapts themfor those whose gardening operations are notvery extensive, for they are beautiful whilequite small; indeed, young plants of these arein every way preferable to old ones. Of someof the kinds, plants only a foot high maywithou
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