. The ladies' companion to the flower-garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies, with full directions for their culture . emone, and, of late years,the G-eranium or Pelargoniums, theHeartseases, the Calceolarias, and theChrysanthemums. Of all the kinds,the Dahlia is undoubtedly thatrespecting which there is most gam-bling and most rivalry. It may beobserved, that the rules by whichflorists decide as to the merits of theirrespective flowers do not depend onany particular beauty of colour, andsometimes not even on form ; but
. The ladies' companion to the flower-garden : being an alphabetical arrangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies, with full directions for their culture . emone, and, of late years,the G-eranium or Pelargoniums, theHeartseases, the Calceolarias, and theChrysanthemums. Of all the kinds,the Dahlia is undoubtedly thatrespecting which there is most gam-bling and most rivalry. It may beobserved, that the rules by whichflorists decide as to the merits of theirrespective flowers do not depend onany particular beauty of colour, andsometimes not even on form ; but oncertain arbitrary criteria which theyhave settled among themselves ; as,for example, no Auricula or Poly-anthus is admired that is what iscalled pin-eyed, that is, if the styleprojects beyond the stamens; and aperfect Dahlia should not show anygreen in the centre. Thus, as itrequires to be a florist to know thefull merits of florists flowers, theyare of comparatively little interest toamateurs. Flos Adoxis,—See Adonis. Flower Fence.—See C^sal-pinia. Flower-Baskets.—These maybe constiucted in many differentways; some being intended to appearas if set on the ground, and others to. FIG. 15.—WIRE flower-basket. be raised on pedestals. The formerare generally constructed with curvedpieces of ii-on furnished with sharpspikes for entering the ground, likethe prongs of a fork; and these areplaced so as to form a circle, withwires for climbing plants extendedacross it, like the handles of a basket.(See /(/. 15.) The plants must be FLOWER BASKETS. 116 FLOWER-GARDENS. trained up a wdre frame in the centre,and thencebrougilt down the -wires tothe curved pieces of iron forming thehorder of the basket. The basketmay be filled up -with flowers or not, the vessel. Captain j\Iangles, whosetaste in ornamental gardening is wellknown, adopts the baskets figs. 16and 17, for suspending from the roofof his greenhouse. The baskets aremade of T\-ire, with pots of earthen-ware or china inside.
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