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THE LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
the wood. The same gentleman in the same manner constructed the flower- 
basket {fig. 36), which is made with 
FLOWER-BASKET OF HAZEL AND BIRCH RODS. 
essential to show that the rudeness of 
alternate rods of birch and hazel, 
both with the bark on ; the upper 
projecting part being formed of 
thin slabs of maple, sawn off a 
log of that wood, laid over each 
other, and attached by nails. The 
frame-work was made of deal; and 
the projecting parts, of some rods 
of hazel and birch thicker than the 
rest. A great variety of plants 
may be planted in such a basket, 
as, for example, dwarf roses and 
geraniums; and creeping plants 
may be introduced, such as Lopho- 
spermum erubescens, Maurandya 
Barclayana, and Lysimachia num- 
mularia (money-wort), to hang 
down over the sides. 
In all cases where the materials 
employed for flower-stands are of 
very little value, the ilowers 
grown in them should be in the ; 
highest possible state of cultivation, 
so as to appear in the greatest 
beauty and luxuriance. This is 
the materials has been the result 
ARBOUR OF HAZEL RODS AND MOSS. 
°f intention, and not of carelessness or poverty. It should never 
be forgotten in forming rustic work, that it is only by the exactness and 
