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WINDOW GARDENING. 



Cuphea, platycentra, Anemone coronaria, Sanoitalia procurabens fl. pi. Primula 

 cortusoides, Gazania splendens, Geum coccineum, Ajuga reptans fol. var., Arabis 

 ^•albida fol. var., Cyclamen persicum and Coum, Saxifraga sarmentosa, Cerastium 

 tomentosum, Myosotis azorica, Ornithogalum aureum, Erinus alpinus Calan- 

 drina umbellata, Viola cornuta, lutea and Viola odorata the Czar, Campanula 

 pulla (pussilla), C. soldanellifolia, Vidallii, Garganica, cochlearifolia and Solda- 

 nella alpina. Collect of all these plants as the season allows. 



Fig. 20 is a low flower 

 stand, best placed in front 

 of a high looking glass, 

 or in summer in front of 

 a fireplace. Such flower 

 stand requires mostly 

 plants with ornamental 

 and variegated foliage, to 

 be seen from above. For 

 instance, all the varieties 

 of Begonia Rex, hydro- 

 cotyledes, manic at a, 

 Warcsewitzii, D r e g e i, 

 smaragdina, stigmosa, 

 Pearcei and ricinifolia ; 

 different Caladias, San- 

 chezia nobilis, Maranta 

 zebina, pardina, vittata, 

 regalis, and Lindeni, sur- 

 rounded by Torrenia asi- 

 atica, Hoya carnosa, Tra- 

 descantia discolor, Gym- 

 nostachys Pearci, Pepe- 

 romia argyraea, P i 1 e a 

 muscosa and various 

 kinds of Gesneria and 

 Gloxinia. 



Fig. 21, an Aquarium 

 covered by a little arbor, 

 to be used for window 

 decoration or flower 

 *•<-— — ~ ' = tables. Plants, as the 



Fig. 23. Flower Basket with Gold-fi8li basin. Cut shoWS US, are : Cype- 



rus alternifolius, Calla athiopica minor, [ris faetidissima, Acones graminifolius 

 and Isolepis parlatoris. For climbing plants, which will well cover the arbor, 

 take : Pilogyne suavis, Tropaeolum tri-colorum or Smilax microphylla (Medeola 

 asiparagoides.) 



