Plant Stand: Lumber required 4 ft. 1 in. x 12 in. Cut the top from one end of your board. Then lay out the four legs marking the top of one next the bottom of the other to save sawing and the four will just about take up the width of your board.

The two stretchers will cut out of the remaining lumber leaving you a piece about 6 in. wide to spare. Smooth up the edges of the top and take off the sharp corners with your plane. Next shape the legs cutting the rabbet 1-4 in. deep for the top to fit in, then the mortises for the tenons on the stretcher.

Next shape stretchers, halving them together where they cross and making the tenons about one-third as thick as the material itself, and shaped as in the drawing. Smooth thoroughly before putting together.

Fasten the tenons with glue and the top either with a plug glued in as at (a), or with screws sunk and covered by a plug as at (b). This plug should be about one-half inch diameter and allowed to project about 1-2 in., the end being rounded as in illustration.

This stand made about 27 in. high, 23 in. in diameter, makes a pretty tea table.