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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ Febraary 22, 1872. 



form, is a good raeilium, but at night it should range from 

 40' to 50'. Beware of the danger of frost. Many house- 

 keepers, in letting their fires go out at night, often forget their' 

 plants, and in the morning awake to find a sudden change of 

 weather, frost on the window pane, and their plants tipped 

 also. It is a safe plan to throw newspapers over the plants 

 between them and the window. 



All plants suitable for greenhouses needing much heat, 

 sliould be avoided for ordinary parlour culture ; only the more 

 simple plants that can be easily managed should be used, but 



Geraniums, Azaleas, Daphne, Yellow Jasmine, Oxalis, Fuchsia?, 

 are always desii-able and ea.'ily managed. 



The design of a window garden of which we give a drawing, 

 is one actually in ufp. The bow window is about C feet wide 

 and 3 feet deep. A doulde stand has been made to fill it up, 

 and the boxes inside are lined with zinc, illled with compost, 

 and covered with moss. A wii'e framework is placed in front 

 for ornament, and from the centre and sides rises an archway 

 of wh'e whereon are growing some cUmbmg Vines. The plants 

 placed in these boxes are Madeira Vuie,Maurandyas, Mexican 



Cobspa, Calla, Roses, Carnations, Fuchsias, Amaranths, Coleus, 

 and Begonias. 



The hanging vase over the centre arch contains a plant of 

 the Coliseum Ivj'. On a bracket just at the edge of the window 



sashes is a dish of Ferns. At the left hand is a hanging basket 

 filled with Moss, and plants of the Oxalis and Tradescantia ; 

 another basket at the right contains the Ice Plant, as well as 

 the Tradescantia. — [Tlie Horiiculturisi.) 



These plants are much closer allied and associated in many 

 ways than the uuscienced reader may suspect. The botani.s't 

 places them in the same natural order — Solanacea». The che- 

 mist shows that they each contain an alkali, poisonous to some 

 animals— solanine in the Potato, and nicotine in the Tobacco. 

 They were brought into use ahnost simultaneously, and by the 



POTATOES AND TOBACCO. 



same man. Theh' use was at first opposed and neglected, and 

 now theu' consumption is among the largest of all vegetable 

 products. The duty paid last year on Tobacco was £6,613,668, 

 and although more than one and a half million of acres are 

 annually occupied by crops of Potatoes, yet there are also im- 

 ported annually about one million and a half cwts. of this 



