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 GRKCIANT AND MODERN VILLA FURNITURE. 101 another, in the top part of the back, for its escape. Fig. 1880 is a sideboard case tc be placed in a dining- room, for the purpose of holding the loose flaps of a dining-table ; the top of which, in a large room, is useful as a sideboard. It is made to suit the style of the sideboard, fig. 1871. Fig. 1881 shows the top of this sideboard case lifted up ; at one end may be seen the slips, between which the flaps slide in. The slips and the spaces be- tween them are covered with green baize. The top is supported, when thrown open, by a quadrant, by which means one person can put the flaps in, or take them out. These are useful objects in families where large dinnerparties aregiven. 1881 We give the preference, for our own particular taste, to fig. 1880, as being massive and ar- chitectural ; and if care be taken to have the bottom open, and to have proper openings under the top to admit of ventilation, the flaps may be preserved from rotting in this case as well as in fig. 1878 while to steep such flaps in the deuto-chlo- ride of meixury (corrosive sublimate), as suggested long ago by Sir Humphry Davy, and as recently employed by INIr. Kyan for the prevention of the dry rot, by neutral- ising the cause of vegetable fermentation. 2085. Dining- Tables. The general form of these is regulated by that of the room in which they are to be placed ; round or square tables being preferred for round or square rooms, and oval or oblong tables for oblong rooms. Round tables are sometimes made so as to admit of the addition of flaps or segments to their cir- cumference, so as to increase their size at pleasure. These segments are secured, by lopers or other fasteners, to the body of the table, and to one another, alluded to a table of this kind as being in use in the villa, De- sign III. § 1749. Figs. 1882 and 1883 are small dining-tables, called cottage or Pembroke tables. They stand on four legs, which should be large and massive, and have good castors, or large wheels. They have two flaps, which fall down ; and which, when up, are sup- ported by fly brackets. They divide in the middle, and draw apart by means of lopers, or slides, of a peculiar construction, Perhaps it might be worth have