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■\vliicli I erow for !Tarnisliin!:^ fruit in summer and autumn. In -winter and until 

 this time variegated kale and bay leaves answer the purpose. Bay leaves are 

 rather stiff for grapes, but for oranges, apples, and other fruit, they may always 

 be used with good effect. 



AMERICAN BULBS. 



Talk about the beauty and the comparative cheapness of Dutch bulbs I Why, 

 I know a tale worth two of that. Last year after the tops had died away from 

 our wild flowers, I obtained some roots of the anemones, blood-root, liver-root, 

 marsh marigold, and numerous other species, which were carefully potted and 

 placed away in a cool shady spot for the winter. They arc all just beginning 

 to show their pretty flowers, and promise to be as bright and cheering as any of 

 the imported bulbs, with far less expense. The idea of removing these plants 

 at once to the open flower garden is preposterous, but by treating them as above, 

 and using light peaty soil, or leaf -mold, success will be attained. I intend my 

 experiments this season to embrace the greater portion of our native plants that 

 are really worth growing. C. 



PARLOR AND WINDOW PLANTS. 



A Xew York florist gives the following as an indicative list, which will be 

 found of value to any one attempting parlor and winter gardening : To flourish 

 in the shade, — Draccenas (dragon tree), Mimulus (musk plant), Achyranthes, 

 Coleus in many varieties, Centaiireas (dusty miller), fuchsias, pansies, zonale 

 geraniums, ivies (English and German), begonias, ferns and fancy caladiums, 

 petunias, ivy-leaved geraniums, gazanias, heliotropes, verbenas, monthly roses, 

 mignonette, cypress and Madeira vines, dwarf cannas, calceolarias, lantanas, 

 lobelias, uerembergia, cuphca and tropeolum ; for both sun and shade : centau- 

 reas, ivies, maurandia, thunbergia, tropeolum. Of these there are many varie- 

 ties in each separate class, so tliat the foregoing lists, short as they seem, will 

 in reality be found comprehensive enough to meet all reasonable requirements 

 for indoor floriculture. 



WINTER WINDOW GARDENS. 



A lady writes the Gerniantown Telegraph : In city or country some one sunny 

 window in every house maybe "a thing of beauty and a joy forever," with 

 more or less outlay of money and labor, as the person may feel disposed. A 

 bay window is of course better adapted for plants than a single one, but cither 

 should first be provided with a plain deal box the length of the window, from 

 two to four feet wide, and at least six inches deep. Have holes bored in the 

 bottom, and place upon it an inch of broken pottery, charcoal and pebbles, to 

 insure drainage. Fill with rich, friable soil, and in it plunge the pots of gera- 

 niums, fuchsias, heliotroi)e, etc. ; then plant tradcscantia, coliseum ivy, se- 



