. The book of the garden. Gardening. top is covered with a portable fine brass- wire grating, the meshes being about half an inch square, to support the mornings flowers, and to keep them in an upright position. Fig. 590. or oak, according to fancy. The interior of the box is lined with thin lead, zinc, or copper, and provided with a waste-pipe. The basketwork round the top, in this case, should be brass, rolling rather out- wards at top, and only from 4 to 6 inches in depth, as the framework of the table is presumed to be deep enough to hide the pots: the whole of the basketwork should appear
. The book of the garden. Gardening. top is covered with a portable fine brass- wire grating, the meshes being about half an inch square, to support the mornings flowers, and to keep them in an upright position. Fig. 590. or oak, according to fancy. The interior of the box is lined with thin lead, zinc, or copper, and provided with a waste-pipe. The basketwork round the top, in this case, should be brass, rolling rather out- wards at top, and only from 4 to 6 inches in depth, as the framework of the table is presumed to be deep enough to hide the pots: the whole of the basketwork should appear above the surface of the moss. This table may be used for cut flowers of dahlias, pinks, or carnations, half of the box being filled with moss, and filled up with fine white sand, into which the flowers are to be stuck nearly up to their calyx. If tastefully arranged with regard to the harmony of colours, such a table will have a pretty effect, and the flowers will last for several days, if not exposed too much to the action of the air. All stands with cut flowers should be vided with. glass shades, g'l91' to be put on at night when the company retires, and removed just before break- fast in the morning, to secure them from dust, which must necessarily arise in do- ing up the rooms in the pro-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original McIntosh, Charles, 1794-1864. Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood
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