The Garden Under Glass

HOUSING AND ARRANGING PLANTS 255 grasses or foliage plants they will be sure of such recogni-tions as their cultural excellence and artistic setting deserve. There are several things to avoid in arranging plants for effect. Briefly, they are overcrowding, clashing the colours, flatness, too formal an outline, and what we might term nakedness, produced by setting the plants too far apart or leaving holes in the arrangement. By the use of pots, pipes, stands, etc., greater height and prominence may be given to many plants and the sense of flatness or heaviness thus easily dispelled. When a. considerable batch of onc kind of plant is in flower a bank or mound of them could be made as is often seen at shows, and would, besides giving pleasure, emphasise both the beauty and the utility of the plant in question. In all these arrangements, however, the faet that the plants will need attention must not be lost sight of, and no method will long prove pretty if the plants cannot be easily go t at. The use of baskets filled with such plants as heliotrope, ivy-leaved geraniums, achimenes, lache-nalias, ferns, asparagus, sprengeri, begonias, fuchsias, campanulas, and similar subjects of a pendulous nature will give the house a very pleasant appearance and endow it with a wealth of beauty and fragrance. Again light pillars can be erected if they do not already exist, and to these may be trained many beautiful flower-ing plants of a climbing character. The use of standard plants in a conservatory allows the flatness to be broken in a happy and easy manner as is now done so frequently in the outside garden.