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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
by a little rain. The Ivy is not allowed to grow sufficiently high to obstruct 
the light from the room. 
This principle could be carried out to a great extent with simple zinc boxes, 
and wire trellis fixed on the outside for the Ivy. A slight contrivance would 
Fig. 2. 
support them on the wall; or, as there are often short pieces of stone or iron 
balustrade to many houses in London, the inside of these could easily be made 
available for such an arrangement, and kept gay with flowers during the wdiole 
vear round. 
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Cliveden. J. Fleming. 
CHRONICLES OF A TOWN GARDEN.—No. YI. 
Hitherto, to will and to execute the plan devised has been, with me, the 
inevitable path to success. I have scarcely had a failure to record, so smoothly 
and successfully have I travelled along my floricultural route. Now, the 
element of failure must come into my “ Chronicles,” and the record be 
“ sickbed o’er with the pale cast” of non-success. As soon as I had cleared 
out of my window the vestiges of the last of the bulbs, I had unexpectedly 
sent me six plants of Geraniums, four of them large-flowering, and two Fancy 
varieties. Here was a stratum in my formation that promised me a storehouse 
of experiences and achievements. Alas ! 
“ Barren doubt, like a late-coming snow, 
Made an unkind December of my spring; ”— 
and I reaped what I had not sown. Scarcely had they become the occupants 
of my window, -when a band of aphis settled on my plants, and, in a very few 
days, completely infested them. I had been from home, and did not notice the 
first incursion of the marauders; and they had grown pretty considerably in 
numbers. I would carefully take my plants to a vessel of water, and, gently 
with my finger and thumb, wash off every trace of the invaders, as I thought. 
