108 RUSTIC FLOWER BASKET. [JUNE. 



Lobelia splendens, Mimulus rivularis, and Se- 

 nec4o elegans, or purple groundsel, and China 

 asters ; and round the edge, a border of 

 hearts-ease, of different colours. The earth at 

 the top of the basket is covered with moss, 

 pegged down, so as to conceal the pots that 

 the plants are growing in : when any of these 

 go out of bloom, they are replaced by fresh 

 pots. 



Very pretty tables and vases are constructed 

 somewhat in this manner : I shall send, in my 

 next letter, a sketch, which I lately made of 

 some : perhaps, as you are a good carpenter, 

 you may contrive to make one, if not exactly 

 like it, at least in the same style. 



Out of the sides peep Verbena melindris, the 

 pretty small blue Lobelia, and the yellow 

 nummularia, or moneywort, which, though an 

 English weed, and found in any wet meadow, 



