. The book of the garden. Gardening. 394 PLANT-HOUSES. water line, and another in the bottom will draw off the water when it requires changing. This mode of construction may be adopted for such plants as need large supplies of water. "The stage d is supposed to have shelves pierced with holes to receive the pots, which rest upon their rims. The fronts of the stone tables may be variously orna- mented : those inonehouse having trellised panels, another may have rusticated courses of brick or stone; while a third may be in imitation of rustic basket-work, and a fourth with rough courses, li
. The book of the garden. Gardening. 394 PLANT-HOUSES. water line, and another in the bottom will draw off the water when it requires changing. This mode of construction may be adopted for such plants as need large supplies of water. "The stage d is supposed to have shelves pierced with holes to receive the pots, which rest upon their rims. The fronts of the stone tables may be variously orna- mented : those inonehouse having trellised panels, another may have rusticated courses of brick or stone; while a third may be in imitation of rustic basket-work, and a fourth with rough courses, like small rockeries, with spaces between for creepers, orchidaceous, or any other plants best suited to the ; The general plan of this arrangement is good, but many of the details are too trifling for adoption. It is a movement, however, in the right direction, and may afford hints to be improved upon. Our own opinion is, that the plunging is bad, and that a better plan would be to have strong tables constructed of cast-iron, slate, or wood, quite flat on the surface, as the taller plants would occupy the centre of each, and perforated with holes, gra- duated to the sizes of pots in common use —each perforation to hold a pot, to be suspended by the rim, and the tables under the top part, as far at least as the bottom of the deepest pot, to be covered in, so as to Fig. 539. hide them en- tirely. Such tables might be made very ornamental, as fig. 539, and lined with copper or zinc, in order to prevent the spilt water from dropping on the floor: by having at one of the corners a small pipe with a cock the water could be drawn off when neces- sary. The plants should be plunged in moss; and by having the tables mounted on castors, they could be moved about at pleasure. For small greenhouses we know of no mode of arranging the plants that would produce a better effect than this; and as the tables should be of different forms, the groups can be altered to suit convenienc
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