Giant or Irish Ivy has frequently been recommended in this periodical for ornamental purposes, as well as a beautiful green plant whicb is perfectly adapted to warm rooms, where it grows with great rapidity, soon covering a trel-lise to form a screen for a window. In the present cut is represented its adaptation for a rural seat or bower. The box is covered with bark, partly filled with chunks of charcoal, leaf mould, and loam; the more charcoal placed inside, the lighter will be the whole structure, which may be placed on wheels, and taken to any part of the garden required; or under a large piazza or front portico, for a waiting seat The supports are composed, in our own instance, of basket willow interwoven by a basket maker, and the seat is supported back and front by setting it on the box. We have brought this plant for one or two winters into the hall, where it forms a beautiful growing evergreen ornament for the eye, no less than for an " expression of purpose." In the heat of a furnace ivy requires a considerable amount of water, which should be used at the temperature of the room.

In the cut the artist has scarcely preserved the proper perspective; it should convey the idea, more perfectly, of a top spreading over the sitter in the form of the top of a willow cradle, but much larger and higher. The box should be placed on rollers or wheels.