. The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . ges, equal if notsuperior to those grown in the house in tlie ordinary way;also a basket containing a peach tree in full fruit, of mostexcellent flavor, fine form, and beautifully colored. Thesewere all tested by connoisseurs, and stated to be superior toany grown in the ordinary way. DECEMBER. 543 A plate of the basket of grapes, as presented to Mrs. Lin-coln, is sent with tliis, (fig. 27,) so that your readers mayjudge of its appearance. This method of growing fruit andflowers is preferable
. The Magazine of horticulture, botany, and all useful discoveries and improvements in rural affairs . ges, equal if notsuperior to those grown in the house in tlie ordinary way;also a basket containing a peach tree in full fruit, of mostexcellent flavor, fine form, and beautifully colored. Thesewere all tested by connoisseurs, and stated to be superior toany grown in the ordinary way. DECEMBER. 543 A plate of the basket of grapes, as presented to Mrs. Lin-coln, is sent with tliis, (fig. 27,) so that your readers mayjudge of its appearance. This method of growing fruit andflowers is preferable to any other, for its beauty, simplicity,and success, as less care and attention is necessary than forordinary plants, and they will last for years witliout renewingor shifting. All plants, fruits, and flowers can be grown in this way,such as pine apples, oranges, figs, grapes, peaches, pears, &c.,besides all the small fruit, gooseberries, currants, strawberries,&c., to say nothing of the more beautiful and attractive things,such as the camellias, roses, azaleas, fuchsias, orchids, ferns,. 27. MOSS BASKET FOR GROWING FRUITS. and variegated-leaved plants. When once seen and appreciat-ed, no one will be without their Hanging Gardens. Whatmore beautiful for the sick room than a basket of choicefruit or flowers, that will not decay or fade, but continue togrow and bloom, and cheer the drooping invalid; or for thewindow or the dinner table, what more elegant than thesebaskets, all covered with the choicest specimens of fruit orthe finest of blooms? Thousands of persons have, duringthe past season, visited the residence of the Hon. W. B. Law- 544 THE MAGAZINE OF HOETICULTURE. rence, at Newport, R. I., to see these wonders and noveltiesin gardening; all were surprised and delighted with thebeautj of these baskets. They have not been exhibited inpublic, except at the last meeting of the Brooklyn Horticul-tural Society, where a basket, containing a pine apple in fullmaturity, was shown
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