130 WINDOW AND PARLOR GARDENING 
single or double. The variety Cooperii is a fine foliage plant 
with richly colored leaves. 
Hydrangea (H. hortensis) is a pretty well known plant, less 
successfully grown in America than it deserves to be. In this 
country it requires a half-shady position. Propagated by cut- 
tings of young shoots, any time of the year, but preferably in 
spring. Young plants should be pushed on rapidly in rich soil, 
and must be gradually brought to rest in the fall, after which 
less water should be given. ‘The plants should not lose their 
leaves, but may be kept in a cool, light cellar until after Christ- 
mas, when repotting can be done if necessary. ‘The plants 
must then be cleaned and brought into a slightly warmer place. 
Liberal watering and spraying will soon develop the dormant 
buds. The plants may also 
be kept in a cool, shady 
window all the year round, 
but will then flower later. 
The presence of alum or 
iron in the soil will change 
the originally red flowers 
into a beautiful blue. 
The Acanthus Family 
7 yy contains a number of hand- 
= << some flowering, suffruticose 
Wy plants: Jacobinia Ghies- 
breghtiana, producing fine 
+ scarlet flowers in axillar 
Facobinia Ghiesbreghtiana. . 
racemes, is one of the finest. 
Peristrophe speciosa, with long ringent flowers of a pale rosy- 
pink produced in great number. JLzbonia floribunda, a neat, 
bushy plant, with ovate leaves and numerous tubular, scarlet 
