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THE PERPENDICULAR GARDEN- 
A GOOD USE FOR OLD PRESERVE CANS. 
Gardens generally grow on a horizontal plane, but 
the garden we wish to speak of stands in a vertical 
or perpendicular position, but which may be arranged 
in various ways; for instance, you can add to your 
land another piece all around in a perpendicular 
position, and a piece in the middle like a cylinder, 
thereby making the land much more 
than before. In the same way you 
can annex territory to the wall of the 
house, and in winter around the win¬ 
dows iuside. Suppose we ornament 
the kitchen, that being the ugliest 
room,-and see if it don't soon beat all 
the others in beauty. As-this is all 
to be done by means of the flower- 
can, the first thing to talk about, is 
HOW TO PREPARE THE CANS. 
Set them on the stove and melt off 
the bottom of the can, leaving the top 
(the hole in it already) for the bottom 
of the flower-can; then punch a hole 
from the inside near the rim, to hang 
it up by, and rub off the paper by all 
means, as it would be ridiculous to 
see Verbena and Petunia labelled to¬ 
mato and corn, or still worse, a 
beautiful Tulip, perhaps, called an* 
oyster. Then give the cans a coat of 
smooth whitewash to keep them from 
rusting, and also from looking so can- 
nish ; they are not preserve cans now, 
you see, but flower-cans. Put crocks 
in them, to keep the earth from run¬ 
ning away; then they are ready for 
use, and as it is the season for grow¬ 
ing plants indoors, we will begin 
■with 
THE VERTICAL KITCHEN GARDEN. 
Hang the cans about half a foot 
apart, one above another, not too near 
the glass; suppose four cans for each 
side of the window, have in the lowest 
Can a blue Lobelia Erinus, in the next 
one above a Sweet Alyssum, above 
that a rose-colored Oxalis (the kind 
with many small flowers, not that 
with a few large flowers), and here is 
red, white and blue ; above that a vine, 
Barclayana or Smilax, to train over 
the top of the window. On the other 
side a yellow Oxalis, then a Topezia, 
a trailing sort of plant looking like a 
red Lobelia; then have a white Oxalis 
and another vine above; these blos¬ 
som all winter better than most plants, 
and are among the showiest and most 
hardy. On the window-sill put either 
a hox as large as will fit, or a row of large cans, in 
which plant a rose Heliotrope, Mignonette, Stevia, 
etc., and you will have a pretty garden all winter; 
hang the bird in the upper sash, and if the kitchen 
don’t beat the parlor, if that is bare of flowers and 
bird, and the inmates look more happy, its odd. Miss 
Madeline may sigh with her novel in the parlor, while 
Feather a foot above the last; the next one of Alter- 
nanthera, a rose-colored plant, and top off with a 
trailing plant. Periwinkle or Lysimachia, to cover up 
the top row of cans; as they grow, clip the stripes 
even, when they hide all the cans. So much for this 
style. Another style, more novel is the cylindrical, or 
THE BARREL GARDEN. 
Bore several holes in the bottom of the barrel for 
drainage, and rows of gimlet holes around the barrel, 
about a foot apart; to use a poetic explanation, a foot 
apart tandem, half a foot abreast. To drive the 
nails, you must have a number of blocks about two 
inches square, and drive the nails into 
the blocks through the gimlet holes; 
you must hold a hammer head against 
the block inside as the nail is,driven. 
Put the crocks in the barrel, fill it 
with earth and hang the cans, and 
then you can have Petunias and Ver¬ 
benas, etc., all growing up on end, 
instead of lying on the ground; or 
make a barrel ribbon-bed in the same 
manner as that made on the fence. 
If you put a pole in the centre, with 
strings from the rim of the barrel to 
the top of the pole, and train vines 
closely to the top, it will he as hand¬ 
some a lawn monument as can be 
seen. The canned garden for winter 
use will give decidedly more pleasure 
than canned fruit; it is good for as 
many months as the fruit is for days. 
It is not so much trouble to take care 
of flower-cans as flower-pots, as they 
do not dry up so soon. If you wish 
to take a plant out of a can, you tap 
the can on the side, and not the top, 
as you do a flower-pot, and don’t quite 
fill it with earth, but leave room 
for water when required. This style 
of growing flowers is quite new, and 
we would like the readers of the 
Floral Cabinet to be the first to 
introduce it. Zivore. 
Church. Flowers.—“Mitchella Re¬ 
pens ” does not tell us what she does 
use for green in her church bouquets. 
I wish she had, for I have had some 
experience in the business, and have 
the same trouble that she has. We 
have a great mauy Lilac bushes on 
•our place, and I often use branches 
from them for green, partially conceal¬ 
ing them with Mountain Mist or 
Gypsophila. Asparagus is fine for 
bouquets, and is easily raised. The 
lemon Geranium grows very rapidly; 
small slips in spring will become 
large plants by the last of July ; and 
the branches are beautiful for large 
bouquets; so is rose Geranium, but 
that is of slower growth. For white 
flowers, I like the Mountain Daisy; 
the flower resembles Pyrethrum, but 
is somewhat smaller. It is a perennial, blooming 
abundantly, and remaining a long time in flower, and 
is perfectly hardy, recpiiring no winter protection in 
Maine. A very showy bouquet may be made of 
Mountain Daisy and scarlet Verbena. I hope we 
shall hear from others on this subject, and please don’t 
forget to tell us what you use for green. F. J. S. 
little Susie in her kitchen will be as happy as her 
bird among the flowers; so much for the kitchen win¬ 
dow garden. We will now proceed to 
THE GARDEN ON THE PERPENDICULAR PLAN. 
By this plan, if you have but the privilege of the 
fence, you can have a garden that will give you as 
much work and flowers as you may want. Hung in 
Vase with Ornamental Plant—Verschaffelti Melanochoetes. 
flower-cans on the fence, the Petunia and Verbena, 
etc., can be made to look like vines; training the 
plants so as to cover the cans, they can be carried on 
as far as you please. The ribbon bed on the fence is 
a great novelty ; plant a row of yellow Coleus a foot 
or little more from the fence, hang the next row (of 
red Coleus) a foot from the ground, then one of Golden 
