86 WINDOW AND PARLOR GARDENING 
M. multiflorum, with white flowers and some varieties, and 
M. pomeridianum, with very large yellow flowers, are also 
common. Ordinary light, sandy soil. 
Sedum Sieboldii is a very fine, old house plant, low and 
trailing in habit, and admirably suited for hanging baskets. 
Leaves roundish, three in a whorl. Flowers in umbellate 
cymes, pink. There is a fine variety with variegated leaves. 
Sempervivums (House-leek) are plants somewhat similar to 
Echeverias in habit, having numerous leaves disposed in 
rosettes. Leaves less fleshy, generally spatulate. $. Arbor- 
escens is a rather handsome shrub, with racemes of yellow 
flowers. S. Arachnoideum is remarkable for its covering of 
threads like a spider’s web. S. tabulzeforme has wide, abso- 
lutely flat rosettes of leaves, and tall peduncles with numerous 
yellow flowers. 
Aloe belongs to the lily family, and consists of numerous 
species of tall, gaudy shrubs, with long and grotesque fleshy 
leaves, smaller but not unlike those of a Century-plant. The 
leaves are glaucous, or green, or with conspicuous black spots. 
The flowers are born in erect racemes and are tubular, gener- 
ally greenish-yellow, with a red apex. 
Aloe variegata is one of the most common plants to be 
seen in windows in Europe. It is very pretty, with spotted _ 
leaves. 
A. vera, saponaria, ceesia, and other forms are larger, and as 
young plants are very suitable. Propagated by cuttings or 
seeds. Soil rich and sandy, with an admixture of old brick 
rubbish and mortar. Pots to be well drained. 
Gasteria is a plant similar in habits to the Aloe, but much 
smaller. ‘These are neat plants for the window, and very 
decorative, in or out of bloom. G. maculata, variolosa, and. 
