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and a bignonia, or Yirginia creeper (trumpet 

 flower), the running stems of which are to be 

 trained parallel to each other along the balustrade. 

 Thus, without encumbering the balcony, you will 

 have, in the spring, the beautiful bunches of 

 amethyst flowers of the Wisteria, hanging grace- 

 fully outside, and shedding an odor the most 

 delicately sweet of almost any of the whole vege- 

 table kingdom ; and in autumn the flowers of 

 the Yirginia creeper, in bunches of a rich red, 

 will renew the decoration. During the inter- 

 mediate heats, the abundant foliage of these two 

 plants will very advantageously protect the boxes 

 of ornamental plants from the burning contact of 

 the solar rays. You need not contrive any other 

 shelter for them. 



Buddleya and Clianthus. 



To procure still more shade, add to the above 

 a robust plant of buddleya on one side, and a red 

 flowered clianthus on the other. 



The buddleya, attached to a solid stick, upwards 

 of a yard and a half high, and left to itself from 

 this height, will fall in all directions, with as much 



