258 WINDOW GARDENING. 



Ornamental Flowering Plants. 



Amaryllis (all varieties). Dielytra spectabilis. 



Acacia armata. Epiphyllum truncatum (varieties) 



" Drummondii. Eucharis amazonica. 



" grandis. Erica, many soft -wooded kinds. 



" Riceana. Epacris (all varieties). 



Azaleas (any varieties). Erythrina Marie Belanger. 



Begonia Digswellensis. Genista Everestiana. 



" fuchsioides. " racemosa. 



" hybrida floribunda. Gardenia radicans major. 



" manicata. Hebeclinium ianthimum. 



" odorata. Lachenalia (many vars.) < 



" Weltoniensis. Leucopogon Richei. 



Camellias (many varieties). Linum flavum. 



Callicarpa purpurea. " trigynum. 



Chrysanthemums. Nerium Oleander. 



Coronilla glauca. Poinsettia pulcherrima. 



Cyclamen persicum (var.) Statice profusa. 



Daphne indica alba. Vallota purpurea. 



" " rubra. 



Choice of Plants and their Arrangements. 

 Draceenas. 



The most popular and suitable plants for gay decoration seem now to be the 

 Bracfsnas. 



After they have been once placed in the window box or jardinet, the attention 

 they require is but ordinary, and they will live in the atmosphere of any mod- 

 erately heated room the year round. 



The variety most used is D. terminalis, very easily managed, and always orna- 

 mental ; the choice among florists often preponderates in favor of the D. ferrea 

 stricta, which is still more beautifully variegated ; the D. gilfiUa, with its stripes 

 of white and green, still rare, is a great novelty. The colored leaved D. Coopen 

 and the green leaved D. Australis, D. indivisa, D. Veitchii, have all an elegant 

 habit, and will do well in the temperature of any sitting room ranging from 60" 

 to 75". 



Other varieties will do well, such as the B. cannaefolia, congesta, rubra, stricta 

 and umbraculifera, but the most preferable of these would be the rubra and 

 stricta. 



Marantas. 



Next in turn would be the Marantas, of which the best vaiieties would be M. 

 pulchella, Zebrina, and also a dwarf variety of the latter. 



The zebrina is much the most popular of all this class, and according to the 

 experience of French gardeners, is the only one suitable for steady cultivation in 

 apartments, as all the others succumb to the hot and dry atmosphere insepara- 



