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material; suitable plants will soon be found for them. Fruit in general 
requires very large pots to bring it to perfection. Perhaps we may make an 
exception in the Otaheite Orange, plants of which are very effective in small 
tubs, with neat Minton tile panels. There is little difficulty in having these 
loaded with fruit. Some of our trees have been ten years in these tubs, without 
a change, and have always fruited. 
Pot Vines are also beautiful, if put upon the table in arches, allowing the 
fruit to hang down. They must be disrooted to suit the vase, but even with 
this I found they stand 
without flagging several 
days. Dwarf Cherries and 
Red Currants are also 
very useful, but the Cher¬ 
ries will not force well for 
more than one season. 
Strawberries are used at 
all times when they can 
be had. It is frequently 
difficult to get single plants sufficiently good; but by taking two or three, and 
shaking off part of the soil, to allow of the three being put into one vase, they 
form a handsome centre. 
Flat designs are too numerous to mention them all; there is such a vast 
scope in these for display of taste, the most useful flowers being frequently 
those that give the most pleasure. For example, in the month of February a 
neat design of Snowdrops, or a large flat dish, raised up in the centre with dark 
green moss, and tastefully done up in some device with the different coloured 
Crocus. When the lights are full on for dinner these expand most gorgeously. 
Some of our own designs are wooden plateaux, with a neat gilt balustrade 
2 inches high for a border {Jig. 1); 
and can be separated and length¬ 
ened at pleasure by introducing 
one or more of fig. 2, as may 
be required. Into this w r e fit 
neat zinc cases full of Lycopo¬ 
dium apodum, and upon this w T e 
introduce letters or designs in 
flowers ; but more frequently, after 
once this is taken out, for common 
green moss from the woods, as 
raising it up gives us more surface. 
On this we place devices of Camel¬ 
lias, Poses, Azaleas, k c., and also 
common out-of-door flowers, as Primroses. For example, if we require three 
separate colours for a particular occasion; we get the green from the moss, 
upon this, for a white ground, double white Daisy, and form the letters w r ith 
the double red Daisy, as on fig. 3. It will be seen by this that one of the 
slips is added to the two round ones. 
Cliveden. J. Fleming. 
CHRONICLES OF A TOWN GARDEN.—No. V. 
With the appearance of these lines in print do I well nigh exhaust the 
“forces” at my command in the way of Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, &c. 
They have made up the very “ glory and strength ” of my spring gardening; 
