FLOWER BASKETS. 



104 FLOWER BASKETS. 



ricula or Polyanthus is admired that 

 is what is called pin-eyed, that is, if 

 the style projects beyond the stamens ; 

 and a perfect Dahlia should not show 

 any green in the centre. Thus, as it 

 requires to be a florist to know the 

 full merit of florists' flowers, they are 

 of comparatively little interest to 

 amateurs. 



Flos Ado x nis. — See Ado v nis. 



Flower de Luce See This. 



Flower Fence. — See CiESALPi'NiA. 



Flower Baskets. — These may be 

 constructed in many different ways ; 

 some being intended to appear as if 

 set on the ground, and others to be 

 raised on pedestals. The former are 

 generally constructed with curved 

 pieces of iron, furnished with sharp 

 spikes for entering the ground, like 

 the prongs of a fork ; and these are 

 placed so as to form a circle, with 

 wires for climbing plants extended 

 across it, like the handles of a basket. 

 (See fig. 11.) The plants must be 

 trained up a wire frame in the centre, 



FIG. 11. 



FLOWER BASKET. 



and thence brought down the wires 

 to the curved pieces of iron forming 

 the border of the basket. The basket 

 may be filled up with flowers or not, 

 at pleasure. Other receptacles for 

 flowers may be wicker baskets, with 

 the interstices stuffed with moss ; or 

 the jars in which grapes have been sent 

 over; but when these last are used, or 

 any other kind of vessel which is very 

 deep in proportion to its breadth, the 



lower part should be filled with brick- 

 bats, pieces of freestone, and other 

 similar materials, to within about a 

 foot or six inches of the top. In all 

 cases where flowers are grown in bas- 

 kets and boxes, they should stand on 

 a lawn ; and the most luxuriant grow- 

 ing kinds should be chosen, to hang 

 down the sides of the vessel. Cap- 

 tain Mangles, whose taste in orna- 

 mental gardening is well known, 

 adopts the baskets fig. 12 and 13 

 for suspending from the roof of his 



fig. 12. 



greenhouse. The baskets are made 

 of wire, with pots of earthenware or 

 china inside. These baskets are alike 

 suitable for the creeping Cereus, Mo- 

 neywort, and other common plants 

 which produce their flowers on hang- 



