CHAPTER VII. 

 FURNISHING AND FIXING. 



THE GARDEN-BOX. VARIOUS VASES. HANGING BASKETS. SIDE- 

 BRACKETS. 



HE chief furnishing of your "greeneries" 

 consists, of course, in the plants themselves ; 



but the plants need more or less of some sort of 

 furniture, and are worthy of being so fixed as to 

 appear to the best possible advantage. This 

 furnishing and fixing may be of the greatest va- 

 riety, providing primarily for all the actual needs of the 

 plants, and then admitting of the exercise and gratifica- 

 tion of your tastes to an almost unlimited extent. You 

 will find it a work of continual interest, to be done not 

 in a day, but progressively, as improvements are suggest- 

 ed. Even the directions concerning it which I venture 

 to give are to be regarded simply as preliminary sugges- 

 tions, to be followed or modified, according to circum- 

 stances. 



THE GAKDEN-BOX. 



This piece of furniture is of the first importance, be- 

 cause it combines so many advantages, obviating much 

 of the trouble connected with the care of house plants in 

 winter. It protects from the sunshine the sides of the 

 pots, and conceals from sight such as are unsightly. It 

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