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THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



Plants for Hanging Vases. 



As a means of floral ornament about our bouses, we are not confined to climbing vines and 

 flowers trained to the posts, pillars, or connecting lattice-work, but over our beads and around 

 us the most interesting effects may be produced by growing flowers in suspended vases or 

 baskets. Nature has kindly provided us with the means of enjoyment, under even appa- 

 rently the most unpropitious circumstances, and here she affords us a large list of plants, 

 which not only grow well in the shade, but from their drooping or pendulous habit seem to 

 have been as expressly designed by her for this very mode of culture, as a wateh from 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 sketches of very pretty pat- 



terns made of pottery-ware, which, or similar, may be ha'l of the principal bortioultara] -t 

 in the I Borne rery bandaaiafl artioles may aiao be made for the same pnrpo 



out ■ if branches of trass — oak, oedai; or of tome durable w I. Oommos boards maj ema 



be nuil<"! together, ud tMte and ingenuity ezeroiaed in covering it with bark or the scales 

 of pine-cones. 



In these va-es, and in the partial shu<le afforded, the following plants will thrive well, re- 



