HANGTXG BASKETS. 



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and which has brightness of foliage or flower. If hang- 

 ing baskets are exposed to the full rays of the sun, or 

 even partly so, covering the surface ©f the soil with 

 moss from the woods will protect it from drying too 

 quickly, and will also give the basket a neater appear- 

 ance. The soil used for hanging baskets need in no way 

 difl'er from that for plants grown in pots, Nothing adds 

 so much to the elegance of the verandas of our summer 

 hotels, as to have hanging baskets and climbing or droop- 

 ing vines judiciously interspersed throughout. • A most 



Fig. 38.— A VERANDA GARDEN. 



excellent example of this was seen at the Delaware Water 

 Gap House, in Pennsylvania, where, in 1886, the finest 

 example of this kind of work was shown that could well 

 be done, and all, too, by the hands of the wife of the 

 proprietor, Mrs. L. W. Broadhead. It was a never- 

 failing source of enjoyment to the guests of the hotel, 

 giving a graceful and cooling shade in the hot summer 

 months. 



