Window Gardening. 553 



" Well," I said, " I can substitute for the moisture repeated 

 showerings, and, by setting it in the sunshine, I'll get 

 something of a moist atmosphere about it ; also my begonia 

 rex, I know they grew well in tlie moist atmosphere 

 of fern cases, so I'll put it by the side of my 

 primrose, and so kill two birds with one stone " — and, 

 most assuredly, I did, beyond any future resurrection, 

 too. 



I think tlie double white primrose more sensitive to 

 ill treatment than the single varieties, and is not apt to 

 do quite as well witli other plants in the window, but neither 

 kind will bear crowding. 



I have a poinsettia pulcherrima that has been quite a 

 beauty this winter, if arranged in with other plants so as 

 to cover the bare stalk, and thus hide another of my blund- 

 ers, also my ignorance of botany — for, had I been well 

 read in that, I might, perhaps, have detected tlie differ- 

 ence between the embryo flower bract and the common 

 leaves, and not re-potted it in just the wrong time, as I did. 



I had been told, by a person whom I supposed knew, 

 that a poinsettia would not be likely to bloom until two 

 years old. Mine not being of that age, and knowing it 

 usually dropped its leaves and rested through the Manter, I 

 concluded I would re-pot it about the middle of November, 

 set it away and make room for some other plant that 

 needed the sunlight. In a short time, however, I saw my 

 mistake, but too late to save any of the green leaves that 

 help so much to set off the l^right scarlet ones that sur- 

 round the flower proper. 



Any one that has a warm, sunny window can grow these 



