100 THE PARLOR GARDENER. 



The Balcony to the East. 



On a balcony to the east if the street be a 

 tolerably wide one, and the balcony belong to a 

 story high enough to receive a ration of air, if 

 not very pure, at least supportable gardening 

 can be practised on a grand scale. 



The window may be surrounded with climbing 

 coboea, instead of ivy. This is a plant of very 

 elegant foliage, althoiigh its flowers have but lit- 

 tle brilliancy. You can give to it for companions 

 Spanish beans and volubilis. These two would 

 not have flowered at all to the north ; nor will 

 they flower to the east either, as they would do 

 to the west or the south. Their flowers, never- 

 theless, will, by their lively tints, make an agree- 

 able variety of colors in the decoration of your 

 window with the eastern exposure. 



Suspended Flower Vases. 



Giving to this decoration the graceful form of 



an arch, by means of a simple hoop nailed to the 



two frames of the window, you must join with 



it the accessory ornament of an earthen- ware vase 



