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Subtropical Gardening. 



from vines which I will plant with my own hands. 

 As dishes for containing vegetables they would be 

 peculiarly appropriate. Gazing at them, I felt that 

 by my agency something worth living for had been 

 done. A new substance was born into the world. 

 They were real and tangible existences, which the 



mind could seize hold of 

 and rejoice in." Of course 

 the climate of New Eng- 

 land is much better suited 

 for fully developing the 

 gourd tribe than ours, but 

 it is satisfactory to know 

 that they may be readily 

 and beautifully grown in 

 this country. 



There are many posi- 

 tions in gardens in which 

 they might be grown with great advantage; on 

 low trellises, depending from the edges of raised 

 beds, the smaller and medium-sized kinds trained 

 over arches or arched trellis-work, covering banks, 

 or on the ordinary level earth of the garden. Iso- 

 lated, too, some kinds would look very effective, 

 and in fact there is hardly any limit to the uses to 

 which they might be applied. In the Royal Botanic 



