CITY GARDENS. 
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beautified with honeysuckle, clematis, roses, wistaria, and 
Virginia-creeper. Such a garden requires watering two or 
three times a day, and especially if the roof is of metal, 
which reflects heat powerfully. 
Even fruit may be raised in this way, and many kinds 
are extremely ornamental. Grape-vines especially flourish. 
They can be bought trimmed and ready for bearing, and 
should be placed at the foot of the posts supporting the 
arches of the terraced arbor. This will provide them with 
a suitable support and the most favorable situation. They 
may be trained to grow in festoons, which are exceedingly 
ornamental. The grapes will appear in due time with¬ 
in easy reach of one’s hand, and hanging in clusters of 
beautiful purple bloom all the way down from the center 
of the arches to the base of the pillars. 
There should be four vines in all—one at each corner— 
and, to have the fruit in perfection, the top of the vine 
must be cut off as soon as the young grapes are as large as a 
pea, and the grapes must be thinned out when very thick 
in a bunch. When too many are left to ripen, they crowd 
each other, and the light can not get to them at all. Some 
very careful cultivators cut out with a pair of scissors one 
grape in every three. The leaves, too, should be trimmed 
off about a month before the grapes are gathered, removing 
every one that prevents the sun from striking directly on 
the fruit. 
Dwarf cherries and plums will bloom abundantly on the 
terrace, if cultivated in large boxes, and a white and red 
currant bush and three or four raspberry plants will be de¬ 
sirable additions. 
A terrace garden is a much more agreeable prospect 
from one’s back or side windows than a dreary metal roof, 
and such a garden can be carried on with so little compara¬ 
tive trouble that it is a source of wonder why it should be 
so generally looked upon as an unattainable castle in the air. 
