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DOMESTIC GARDENING. 
require to be screened from the direct rays of 
the sun. Some of the smaller-growing kinds, 
indicated thus (*) might be grown in pots, 
and trained on appropriate wire trellises ; 
columnar ones, such as those represented in 
a former page of this work, are the 
most appropriate for the situation and the 
plants, and by far the most pleasant to the 
eye. 
Bignonia capreolata, (tendrilled Trum- 
pet-flower.) — Flowers in June : rich loam. 
Clematis Florida bicolor, (Siebold's 
Japan Clematis.) — Flowers from June : rich 
turfy loam. 
Clematis ccerulea, (celestial-blue Cle- 
matis.) — Flowers from May. 
Ifomoea rubro-ccertjlea, (red and blue 
Ipomcea.) — Flowers from July : rich loam. 
*Ipojicea ficifolia, (fig-leaved Ipomoea.) 
— Flowers from May. 
Kennedya monophylla, (one-leaved Ken- 
nedya.) — Flowers from May : peat and 
loam. 
Kennedya coccinea, (scarlet-flowered 
Kennedya.) — Flowers from June. 
*Lophospermum scandens, (scandent Lo- 
phospermum.) — Flowers from June : rich 
loam. 
Maurandya Barclayana, (Barclay's Mau- 
randya.) — Flowers from May : rich loam. 
Maurandya alba, (white-flowered Mau- 
randya.) — Flowers from June. 
Passiflora ccerulea, (common blue 
Passion-flower.) — Flowers from July : sandy 
loam. 
Passiflora incarnata, (flesh-coloured 
Passion-flower.) — Flowers from June. 
Philibertia grandiflora, (large-flowered 
Philibertia.) — Flowers from June : loam and 
peat. 
*Sollya lteterophylla, (various-leaved 
Sollya.) — Flowers from May to September : 
peat and loam. 
* Sollya linearis, (linear-leaved Sollya.) 
— Flowers from May to September. 
*Tropjeolum brachyceras, (short-spurred 
Tropasolum.) — Flowers from May: sandy 
loam. 
*Trop^eolum tricolor, (three-coloured 
Tropaeolum.) — Flowers from May. 
*TROPiEOLUH pentaphylluji, (five-leaved 
Tropreolum.) — Flowers from June. 
Wistaria sinensis, (Chinese Wistai-ia.) — 
Flowers in April : rich loam. 
These may be taken as examples of the 
plants which may be successfully introduced 
to the situation under notice. We have 
already remarked that the same class of plants 
will not so satisfactorily succeed when the bal- 
cony faces the north : in these situations, 
Ferns, and similar plants, would form no des- 
picable exchange for flowering-plants ; some 
might be studded on artificial rockwork, placed 
against the walls and breaking up their mono- 
tonous regularity, and others planted in rustic 
baskets, or fastened on blocks of wood, might 
be suspended from the roof, according as their 
natural habits might adapt them for one or 
the other of these positions. It is hardly pos- 
sible to conceive a more beautiful sight than 
such an assemblage, and, if it were thought 
desirable, plants in flower might, from time to 
time, be introduced, so as to keep up a succes- 
sion of bloom throughout the greater part of 
the season. It will be entirely unnecessary 
to give a detailed list of Ferns, for any of those 
which are not stove species, will succeed ad- 
mirably, and all of them are beautiful and 
graceful in their foliation : there are several 
kinds of Lycopodium, also, which are well 
adapted to accompany them. 
THE OPEN BALCONY AND WINDOW LEDGE. 
Open balcony. — The class of plants, se- 
lected for the decoration of this situation, is 
that of hardy evergreen and flowering shrubs: 
it will be obvious, that no other than 
hardy plants would survive in such places ; 
and no other than evergreens would impart 
an aspect of cheerfulness throughout the 
gloom of winter. To render them perfectly 
adapted to their station, the plants should be 
selected when of moderate size, in preference 
to those which are larger ; and they should, 
at this early stage of their growth, be pruned 
sufficiently to ensure their compact form, 
although not so much so, as to destroy the 
natural habit they assume. Towards the end 
of the summer, (say, about the end of August,) 
they should be taken up from the open 
ground, and placed in pots sufficiently large 
to receive the roots without crushing them ; 
nothing at the outset can more forcibly minis- 
ter to their mortality, than a thoughtless 
sacrifice of the roots, with a view to force 
them into pots of smaller capacity ; for, in 
this case, as in everything else connected with 
the growth of plants, a smaller portion of 
labour, well applied, will produce more satis- 
factory results, than more extended operations, 
less carefully attended to. After potting, the 
plants should be placed in some shady place 
for a week or two, until they have re-com- 
menced growing ; and then, they may be re- 
moved to their permanent positions, or to 
any convenient place to await their removal 
thither. 
The operation of potting, and the attention 
which plants in general require, with regard 
to the administration of water, have been 
noticed in a former part of this paper, so 
that it will be unnecessary in this place to 
make a repetition of what has been there 
stated. There is, however, a contingency 
