Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-15
Hanging. Baskets.

Not every one can have flower
garden but every one can have hang
ing-basket, Iii summer time al, least.
The bringing of one into some howerless
home is often the beginning of a lifelong
love for flowers, the more association of
which with daily duties is retining IN
t1uence, and the more there is done to
make their culture universal the better
Hanging g-baskets can be bought of any
florist at prices ranging from 81 to S.
each, according to size and kind, and
the varieties of plants in them, from the
common wire basket to the rustic and
Tie fancy earthen ware hanging pot.
The wire and rustic baskets are the fa-
vortes, those mode of wire and being
best as far as the growing of plants is
concerned. IN them plants seem to
thrive hest.
Some earthenware baskets are hand.
some, being decorated with vines and
| medaIlions in relief, and generally taste
fully painted. They are also made in
the form of small logs of wood of various
sizes; the appearance Of a log is so we'll
initiated that most persons at first think
they are really sections of logs followed
out and filled with soil and plants
Plants will grow as we'll in a wire OK
muzzie, tlattened out q little. as in the
most costly rustic or earthenware bask-
cts; however, the wire baskets made for
the purpose are leater than ox-muzzles,
and as they have the handles already or
many prefer them.
Those having baskets that have been
filled often attempt to fill them them
selves and generally make mistakes
Florists will i'll, empty baskets for q
moderate price, using their own expert
ence and taste in putting in the proper
plants. In most ic raj catalogues the
basket plants are designated, or there is
a separate list. Line the basket neatly
with moss, the thinnest kind is best;
put in the soil, which should be fine and
rich, push and pack it into the moss and
the basket s ready to fill.
Put plant of German or English ivy
or some other tineleaved vine at each
wire or chain; place Il lobelia and moss
| pink, a Kenilworth ivy, in the centre
put coleus, fancy leaved geranium or
| centaurea, better known as dusty
miller, with an artillery plant and O
saNhraga tbeeisteak or strawberry ger
anliml. eithe, the plain green'varietv or
the varlegnted white, green anu light
pink one, on eacn side of the centre
piart then put in two or three cuttings
o: tradescanthia, oTwhich there are now
F; seVcra. varieties, green, green and
bronze, green and white and I. multi
color, the latest, prettily variegated
greens white and pink ;.the last, though
| very handsome, is not so strong grower
| as the others, and has tendancy to run
back to older varieties.
| The plants named will fill the basket;
fv,y- ! n, II, -
P, cool shady place for day or two before
hanging up. The above hints will do as
| we'll for rustic and earthenware baskets
as for Wire ones; but before filling them
| see that there are holes in the bottom
| for drainage. If there should not be- as
| often is the case, make them in some way
| The rustic baskets. III particular are
| often manufactured without holes for
| drainage. Hanging baskets should not
! be hung where they will get continual
| sunshine. Keep them in at least partial
shade, and water whenever dry; nearly
every day, The wire baskets once a
week or ottener should be taken down
and put in a pail or tub of water and
| given five minutes soak.
Among pants suitable for baskets, moi
mentioned above, are sweet alyssum.
particularly the varigated variety; gnaph-
alum, with downy white leaves; gazania,
the flowers Of which are orange and
black; the smaller growing varieties OF
ferns; var. ice plant; Othonna crassifola;
trop volums and variegated grasses; pani-
cumolar. is about the best Of the latter;
coccaoba. achyranthus, cineraria mari
TINA, the yariegated trailing vinca, and
| others, The rex class OF begonias, with
their beautiful marked leaves, do well
in baskets, as do the Towering class.
Glaucophylla scandens is variety with
a dropping habit, waxy light green
leaves and orange salmon flowers; it
does we'll in a basket by ITSELF The be-
gonias, however, must have shade, heat
ply, to be grown successfully.SF. ".
Harold, Kingston, Md.-N. Y. Tribune.