An Agave, or a Yucca planted in a garden vase is always suitable, and requires no special care or management. Harper's Bazar recommends that the space between it and the vines be filled in with Echeverias, Se-dums, stone crops, or fig Marigolds; another vase may be planted entirely with scarlet geraniums; a third with the Amaranthus salicifolius in the center, surrounded with coleus; a fourth may have a Fuchsia in the center, surrounded with a medley of Petunias, Begonias, Phlox Drummondii, Perilla, Cent-aureas and similar plants. Some may have the outer edge planted with drooping plants, such as Moneywort, or Ivy, overhanging the vine. " In fact the whole class of what are known as bedding out plants, are admirably adapted for this purpose, and elegant combinations of colors and contrasts of foliage can be so arranged as to display the taste of the owner.

If planted in the autumn with Crocuses and Hyacinths, early spring flowers can be had before the season arrives for planting them with the more tender bedding out plants, so that a continuous display of floral beauty can be had from April until October or November; all that is required is that the vase should be filled with good rich garden soil, to within an inch or two of the top and the plant then inserted; all that they will then require, will be to have the > inch or so of space filled up with water every evening during the hot summer weather, but never round up the center of the soil, as it then sheds the water and the center plants are liable to parish from drought."