FLOWER BASKETS. 



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FLOWER-GARDENS. 



trained up a wdre frame in the centre, 

 and thence brou gilt down the -wires to 

 the curved pieces of iron forming the 

 horder of the basket. The basket 

 may be filled up -with flowers or not, 



the vessel. Captain j\Iangles, whose 

 taste in ornamental gardening is well 

 known, adopts the baskets figs. 16 

 and 17, for suspending from the roof 

 of his greenhouse. The baskets are 

 made of T\-ire, with pots of earthen- 

 ware or china inside. These baskets 

 are alike suitable for the Creepers, 



FIG. IC— CHINA FLOWKR-BASKET. 



at pleasure. Other receptacles for | 

 flowers may be v/icker baskets, with ! 

 the interstices stuffed with moss ; or \ 

 the jars in which grapes have been { 

 sent over ; but when these last are I 

 used, or any other kind of vessel 

 which is very deep in proportion to 

 its breadth, the lower part should be 

 filled with brickbats, pieces of free- 

 stone, and other similar materials, to 

 within about a foot or six inches of 

 the top. In all cases where flowers 

 are gro^oi in baskets and boxes, they 

 should stand on a lawn, and the 

 most luxuriant-growingkinds should 

 be chosen, to hang down the sides of 



Cereus, Moneywort, and other com- 

 mon plants which pi'oduce their 

 flowers on hanging stems, as for 

 Epiph}^es and orchideous plants. 

 When the baskets are used for 

 Epiphytes, the v/ire should generally 

 be filled with moss, instead of having 

 a pot placed in it. 



Flower- Gardens embrace a s\xb- 

 ject on which a volume might be 

 written without exhausting it ; but 

 the present article will be con- 

 fined to a few general observations, 

 applicable in every case ; and to a 

 short notice of the different kinds of 

 flower-gardens which have been, or 

 are, in most general use. 



All flower-gardens, to have a good 

 effect, ought to be symmetrical ; that 

 is, they ought to have a centre, which 

 shall appear decided and obvious at 

 first sight, and sides ; and all the 

 figures or compartments into which 

 the garden is laid out ought to be in 



