PLANTS FOR HANGING YASES. 



and the seat is supported back and front by setting it on the box. We have brought 

 this plant for one or two winters into the hall, where it forms a beautiful growing 

 evergreen ornament for the eye, no less than for an "expression of purpose." In 

 the heat of a furnace ivy requires a considerable amount of water, which should be 

 used at the temperature of the room. 



In the cut the artist has scarcely preserved the proper perspective; it should con- 

 vey the idea, more perfectly, of a top spreading over the sitter in the form of the 

 top of a willow cradle, but much larger and higher. The box should be placed on 

 rollers or wheels. 



PLANTS FOR HANGING VASES. 



NO. II. THE GREENHOUSE. 



BY THOMAS MEEHAN, GERMANTOWN. 



In the September number of the Horticulturist, I offered its readers an article on 

 hanging vases, in so far as they were capable of affording a floral interest to the 

 comforts and pleasures our verandahs, porches, and piazzas afford us. The list of 

 plants I gave comprised only those which not merely grow well in the shade such 

 situations suppose, but which would do better than these in more exposed places. The 

 interest which has been taken in the subject induces me to extend my notice, so as 

 to embrace a list of plants that would do well in the sun light, so that an additional 

 charm might be given to the culture of greenhouse and conservatory plants. 



It is rather a matter of surprise that more attention has not been given to this 

 subject by some of our cultivators, as many plants are in their most natural state 

 when drooping or reclining, and some, as is well known, will not flower freely unless 

 allowed a little wilfulness in their mode of growth. 



It must not be denied that the culture of plants, in baskets for exposed situations, 

 is attended with some little difiiculty in our climate on account of the heat of our 

 summers, and the aridity of our atmosphere, which render it necessary to be con- 

 stantly watering them or constantly shading them, the first of which soon renders a 

 soil sour and unfit for the growth of sun-loving plants, while if we resort to shading 

 to save watering, a large growth of leaves with but few flowers is the result. 



Fortunately for us we have a small list of plants, which, while they luxuriate un- 

 der our burning sun, do not desire a large supply of moisture to keep them in health, 

 and at the same time are more at home when allowed to trail, or hang from baskets 

 or vases, than "chained to the stake" as we so generally see them, and where like 

 tight-booted recruits at a drill, it seems so very uncomfortable to " stand at ease." 



