CHAPTER IV 



BALCONY-GARDENING 



" Visions of blue Violet plots, 

 White Daisies and Forget-me-nots." 



Some of us have a balcony as well as a window-box. 

 Here is a field indeed ; we have more space, more oppor- 

 tunity for display. Rescued from the hands of the florist, 

 balcony-gardening becomes one of the most interesting 

 of occupations. Here we may aspire to creepers and 

 climbers in a good aspect, even to Roses. Imagine it in 

 London ! 



" Rose-trees, either side the doorway 

 Growing lithe and growing tall, 

 Each one set, a summer Warder 

 For the keeping of the hall/' 



Climbers in pots that make thick summer growth are 

 easiest to manage ; these we can get fresh every season, 

 and they greatly brighten up the old friends that have 

 lived with us from year to year through the adversities 

 of frost and fog. Major Convolvulus and the perennial 

 "Morning Glories" do well, also Canariensis ; but all 

 these must have sun. 



For a town wall-plant nothing can surpass the 



Winter Jasmine, whose yellow blossoms cheer the dullest 



months, and in summer we welcome its long green trails, 



which we must not forget to cut back every autumn, or 



it will get too straggly. It is always the year's young 

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