THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 97 



WINDOW GARDENING. 



BY JOHN B. MOLLISON. 

 {Contimced from page 71.) 



FILLING WINDOW BOXES. 



JN planting window boxes you can have a wonderful 

 variety in plants and general arrangement, and there is 

 great scope for a display of neatness and taste. The 

 bos itself may be scalloped, beaded, carved, or plain ; 

 painted, varnished, and decorated in any style ; made of 

 wood, slate, tile, or virgin cork, or other materials. And as every 

 season comes round you can have your window box striking the 

 yearly quarters as true as any calendar, as one season's flowers die 

 out and another come in, keeping up the interest all the year round, 

 and forming a never-failing source of pleasure. 



In this chapter I propose to fill an imaginary dozen or so of 

 boxes to give you an idea how it may be done. 



I will take them as they bloom in their seasons, from the early 

 tulips and snowdrops of spring to the chrysanthemum and variegated 

 shrubs and holly berries of winter. 



Box 1. — Early Duc-van-Thol tulips, and two or three roots of 

 Golden Feather in the centre. Snowdrops, yellow, white, and blue 

 crocus round the outside. 



Box 2. — Early Duc-van-Thol tulips, early hyacinths, arabis and 

 aubrietia inside ; with mixed crocuses outside and clump of double 

 snowdrops at each end. 



Box 3. — Late tulips, hyacinths, and crocuses, double and single 

 primroses and polyanthus inside ; sweet violets and hepaticas round 

 the outside. 



Box 4. — Dwarf wallflower, Brompton stocks, polyanthus and 

 narcissus inside. Red and white daisies, blue and yellow pansies 

 round the outside. 



Box 5. — Dwarf wallflower, Brompton stocks, and lily of the 

 valley. Red and white daisies and blue pansies round the outside. 



Box 6. — Variegated and scarlet geraniums, brown and yellow 

 calceolarias ; with blue and white violas and pansies and echeverias 

 round. Sow sweet peas at each end to train up. 



Box 7. — Geraniums and pelargoniums, with little patches of 

 annuals between, such as candytuft, nemophila, clarkia, and migno- 

 nette ; with blue lobelia, sedums, and echeverias round. Canary 

 creeper, nasturtium, and sweet peas, to train up the window. 



Box 8. — Scarlet and white geraniums, brown and yellow calceo- 

 larias alternately; blue and white lobelia round; with canary 

 '•reeper and nasturtium at each end. 



Box 9. — Geraniums, calceolarias, and fuchsias, with musk plant 

 and lobelia round ; a few Virginiau stocks between ; and scarlet- 

 runners to train up at each end. 



Box 10. — Scarlet geraniums, with lobelia ; blue and yellow violas 



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