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subsequent handling. Prepare the box as recom- 
mended above, as to drainage holes, charring, 
and filling. A box this size should have about 
eight three quarter-inch holes in the bottom, 
but avoid running them in a straight line or you 
will weaken the bottom of the box. As to plants 
for the box, the same requirements hold as for 
any veranda decorations. English ivy makes 
a good permanent screen; but flowering vines 
can always be used, providing there is enough 
sunlight on the piazza. If you have a small 
greenhouse where plants can be stored during 
winter, you can use tender vines like the jasmine, 
whose sweet fragrance will add still more to the 
beauty of the scheme. After you have planted 
the boxes, take some strips of wood about four 
feet long, an inch wide, and one half inch thick 
and nail them to the ends of the box; connect 
them at the top with a similar strip; bore holes 
with a gimlet in the side strips about four inches 
apart and run wires across from one strip to the 
other; then train the vines over the wires. 
Movable screens can be made in other forms 
than the simple square or oblong. If you have 
a vigorous, good-sized vine started in a box, pot, 
or tub, a light, fan-shaped trellis is convenient 
and easily made. Five light dahlia stakes 
