The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . PLANTS FOR HANGING VASES. It occurs to me tliat while enjoying the shade the piazza affords, we may at thesame time have the gratification of being surrounded by our floral pets, and that tooiu a manner that will give a pleasing variety to our gardening operations. Not onlymay we have beautiful climbing vines and flowers trained to the posts, pillars orconnecting lattice work, but over our heads and around us the most interestingeffects may be pioduced by growing flowers in suspended vases or baskets. Nature. has kindly provided us
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . PLANTS FOR HANGING VASES. It occurs to me tliat while enjoying the shade the piazza affords, we may at thesame time have the gratification of being surrounded by our floral pets, and that tooiu a manner that will give a pleasing variety to our gardening operations. Not onlymay we have beautiful climbing vines and flowers trained to the posts, pillars orconnecting lattice work, but over our heads and around us the most interestingeffects may be pioduced by growing flowers in suspended vases or baskets. Nature. has kindly provided us with the means of enjoyment, under even apparently themost unpropitious circumstances, and here she aflords us a large list of plants, whichnot only grow well in the shade, but from their drooping or pendulous habit seem tohave been as expressly designed by her for this very mode of culture, as a watchfrom its works seems designed to measure time. As she has provided the plants,we cannot do less than supply the baskets, and accompanying this article, we give skctchos of vory pretty patterns made of pottery ware, which or siniilar, maybe had of the principal horticultural stores in the large cities. Some very handsomearticles may also be made for the • ame purposes out of branches of trees; Oak, Cedar,or of some durable wood. Common boards may even ]jc nailed together, andtaste and ingenuity exercised in covering it with bark, or the scales of Pine these vases, and in the partial shade aflforded, the following plants will thrivewell, reijuiring but lit
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