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quiring but little water or other attention ; and at the approach of winter may be taken down, 

 and hung in the parlor, hall, or entry, to add an additional charm to domestic pleasures for 

 the rest of the year. 



1. Linaria cymbalaria: Ivy-leaved Snapdragon. — Well known to European travellers from 

 its frequency on the walls of shaded ruins. It is a delicate and graceful grower, bearing a 

 profusion of small purple flowers the whole season. 



2. Lysimachia numularia : Yellow Creeping Loosestrife — Has a very pretty habit of growth 

 in its slender stems and small opposite leaves, bearing as it grows in their axils yellow flowers 

 about the size of gold dollars. 



3. Saxifraga sarmentosa : Creeping Saxifrage. — Its foliage is very prettily veined and mar- 

 bled, and the spikes of white flowers it throws up are curious as well as handsome. 



4. Fragraria Indica : Mock Strawberry. — Its fruit, though as insipid and tasteless as the 

 food of ghosts might be supposed to be, is so very pretty, and it does so well in the shade, 

 that there are few things I would sooner recommend for our purpose. 



5. Vinca major: Large Periwinkle. — An evergreen with leaves one and a half to two 

 inches long by one broad, and large blue flowers opening only in the spring ; best adapted 

 for large baskets. 



6. V. minor: Lesser Periwinkle. — Smaller every way than the last; yet very distinct and 

 handsome. 



7. V. perenne : Creeping Periwinkle. — A very distinct species, with long, slender creeping 

 stems, small leaves, and small, very early blue flowers. 



8. Cereus flagelliformis : Catstail or Creeping Cereus — Grows well in the shade in summer, 

 and when removed to the parlor in winter, flowers well near the light of a window. 



9. Sedum Sieboldii: Siebold's Stone Crop — With pale purple flowers and glaucous leaves; 

 requires little water or pot-room, and is well adapted for a small vase. 



10. Sedum acre: Yellow Stone Crop, or "Love Entangle" — Doing well in either sunshine 

 or shade, and a most abundant bloomer. 



11. Viola odorata arborea: Tree Violet — Which, with strong central stalks, sends out nume- 

 rous slender branchlets, hanging over the sides of the pot or basket, and bearing a profu- 

 sion of very sweet double blue flowers. 



12. Cahjstegia pubescens : Double Convolvulus. A pretty flowering plant, and not likely to 

 be so much objected to on account of its creeping roots here, as in the open ground. 



13. JEpigea repens : Ground Laurel. — A hardy evergreen with deliciously-scented waxy 

 white flowers, very pretty. 



14. Mitchella repens : Partridge-berry. — Another evergreen with sweet-scented white flow- 

 ers, succeeded by numerous holly-like berries. 



15. Polemonium reptans : Creeping Valerian. — Erect spikes of blue flowers, from branchlets 

 which hang over the sides of the basket. 



I have confined myself to hardy or very nearly hardy plants, and which will thrive and do well 

 in the shade ; any of the above may be depended on. — Thomas Meehan : Phila. Horticulturist. 

 To the above list the editor of the Horticulturist adds the following additional plants : — 

 Coboza scandens as a basket-suspending plant does well, but requires a largish pot and 

 plenty of space to droop in. The Lophospermums. — Every species of this genus will answer 

 well. Haurandia. — All the species and varieties. Nierembergia. — All will do well in baskets. 

 Roses trained downward, particularly the Viscomtesse des Cases, will grow and flower well in 

 baskets in green-houses. The Ivy-leaved Geranium in suspended pots quite covers and con- 

 ceals them. The Verbena, and even the grateful Strawberry, might be cultivated in this 

 way, under glass, and would yield to few other plants for beauty in bloom and fruit, besides 

 yielding a dish now and then of one of the most health-giving fruits we possess. 



Green-house Plants for Winter Bouquets. 



Mr. Thomas Meehan, in the Horticulturist, communicates the following article on the 

 selection and character of a stock of winter-blooming green-house plants, suitable for form- 

 ing baskets and bouquets. I will suppose, says Mr. M., that we have nothing to commence 



