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THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



Plants for Hanging Vases. 



As a means of floral ornament about our houses, we are not confined to 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 produced by growing flowers in suspended vases or 

 baskets. Nature has kindly provided us with the means of enjoyment, under even appa- 

 rently the most unpropitious circumstances, and here she affords 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 give sketches of very pretty pat- 



terns made of pottery -ware, which, or similar, may be had of the principal horticultural stores 

 in the large cities. Some very handsome articles may also be made for the same purposes 

 out of branches of trees oak, cedar, or of some durable wood. Common boards may even 

 be nailed together, and taste and ingenuity exercised in covering it with bark or the scales 

 of pine-cones. 

 In these vases, and in the partial shade afforded, the following plants will thrive well, re- 



