PLANTS FOR HANGING VASES. 



It occurs to me tliat while enjoying the shade the piazza affords, we may at the 

 same time have the gratification of being surrounded by our floral pets, and that too 

 iu a manner that will give a pleasing variety to our gardening operations. Not only 

 may we have beautiful climbing vines and flowers trained to the posts, pillars or 

 connecting lattice work, but over our heads and around us the most interesting 

 effects may be pi'oduced by growing flowers in suspended vases or baskets. Nature 



has kindly provided us with the means of enjoyment, under even apparently the 

 most unpropitious circumstances, and here she aflords 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 watch 

 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 



