PLANTING WINDOW BOXES AND VASES 3 3 



Boston ferns are also a grand plant for box planting particularly 

 for shaded exposures where blooming plants do not thrive. 



I saw a large building with boxes at every window filled with 

 sprengeri and just occasional bright coleus. Quite simple yet the 

 effect was very pretty. I saw allipinum ageratum, colelia used with 

 success, corresponding to the care it received. 



It seems to us that there is a scarcity of good trailing or drooping 

 plants for box and basket planting. I would like to ask the members 

 present for suggestions and a discussion of the subject. Mrs. Jones 

 may think Mrs. Brown's window boxes and baskets perfectly lovely 

 and she would like hers filled just as pretty and altogether different. 

 The more taste and originality the florist shows, the more pleased 

 customers. They are his best assets. Mr. Green: I would like to 

 ask Mr. Simanton if there are any of the florists who have ever tried 

 coboea scandeus? 



Discussion. 



Mr. Williams: I believe there are several plants that Mr. 

 Simanton has not mentioned. Plants for flower boxes and vases, 

 such as the geranium, German Ivy, and I would like to add the 

 acalpha. I have used them for the last two or three years in vases 

 and window boxes and they do fine. They stand the sun A number 

 One, and they make a beautiful showing. I do not believe that any 

 window box, where you use window boxes, or even a vase, is complete 

 without a lobelia. It all depends upon the building itself. Possibly the 

 color of the stone or brick, called for certain colors in plants. 

 Did they use the red or yellow coboea? 



A. Red. 



Mr. Williams: Where a florist is given his own way to 

 fill these porch boxes, window boxes, vases and so forth, I believe 

 t here is a lot of stuff we can use in them. Such plants as the ver- 

 benas, and lobelias, and varigated coleus. You can't get anything 

 any better: 



Mr. Green: Now while we are talking about window boxes and 

 vases and so forth, there is one thing we should not forget, and that 

 is the old S. A. Nutt, geraniums. 



Mr. Henderson: For a large vase I would like to put in a fine 

 phoenix palm in the center. They are very durable and they will 

 stand the wind and sun and so forth. They make a nice elevation in 

 the center of the vase. And you can use Boganvilla. They will 

 stand the sun fine, and they make a nice trailing effect up against 

 those things. They will stand our winds. 



Mr. Williams: The phoenix roebellenia you mean? 



A. Yes sir. 



Mr. Williams: The phoenix robellenia is the most graceful 

 I have used. 



