HANGING BASKETS AND PLANTS. 



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CHAPTER XV. 



HANGING BASKETS AND SUITABLE PLANTS, AND TREAT- 

 I MENT OF IVY. 



HAT a pretty amusement is the growth 

 of plants in hanging baskets or 

 pots ! It is very popular, and 

 deservedly so. The beauty of 

 the baskets, now fashioned in so 

 many artistic designs, is almost 

 sufficient to inspire a love of hor- 

 ticulture, if only for the sake 

 of growing the plant in so 

 pretty a pot. Yet we cannot urge 

 the growth of plants in these bas- 

 kets ; a porous pot is essential to 

 the health of a plant, and most of 

 these baskets are china, or glazed or painted. 



Yet they may be used by setting the pot containing the 

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