122 THE PARLOR GARDENER. 



closed by the wall of the house of which it is an 

 appendage, in which wall are the doors and win- 

 dows opening upon it, erect, at each of the other 

 sides, two arches, from the centres of which vases 

 are to be suspended. 



Shrubs blooming in the Shade. 

 Just within the balustrade, or the parapet (if it 

 be a parapet) of your terrace, we must have a 

 range of boxes similar to those on the great bal- 

 cony, which, by our joint endeavors, we have 

 been getting all the good out of that we could. 

 This terrace garden of yours being a northern 

 one, its boxes must be filled with heath soil ; and 

 we must rear there shrubs with persistent leaves 

 variegated hollies, alaterni, rhododendrons. 

 These are among the shrubs which tolerate the 

 shade, and whose robust temperament does not 

 fear the cold, and, with the gret periwinkle for 

 their associate, they will constitute the basis of 

 the decoration of your garden. Add to them 

 whatever ornamental plants I have previously 

 made known to you, as being able to bloom 

 passably well without the help of the sun. 



