THE PARLOR GARDENER. Ill 



confined space than in the mere veranda of a 

 window. Access to such balconies being had 

 through windows reaching down to the floor, be- 

 fore each window an interval should be reserved, 

 to allow you to approach the balustrade and lean 

 on your elbows whilst looking out. Should it 

 be your good fortune to occupy a lodging ren- 

 dered at once healthy and agreeable by such an 

 appendage as a spacious balcony with a good 

 exposure, the side spaces, intermediate to those 

 kept open in front of the windows, may be sup- 

 plied with wooden boxes, longer than they are 

 wide, painted green, and filled with good garden 

 earth, mixed with manure. You have but to 

 consider these boxes as the borders of a parterre, 

 and proceed to garden there accordingly, as you 

 would on the ground. 



Plants for the Balcony Garden. Wiste- 

 ria and Virginia Creeper. 



At each end of the balcony a box, its length 

 equal to the width of the balcony, which two 

 boxes have a special destination : it is there that 

 you must plant a glycine of China (Wisteria), 



