The Canadian Horticulturist. 



A HANGING WINDOW GARDEN. 



Many people are so situated that their gardens, if they have any, must be 

 on a platform on the outside of some sunny window. Such hanging gardens are 

 capable of affording a great deal of enjoyment. Many, however, are deterred 

 from employing such a miniature garden from the fact that the ordinary frame 



work that is used for the purpose is 

 too expensive to construct, and is 

 applied much too permanently to make 

 it applicable to a rented house, where 

 many flower-lovers are to be found. 

 The illustration shows how a simple 

 affair can be constructed, and how 

 easily and simply it may be attached 

 and detached from the outside of a 

 window. It is a shallow box, with the 

 inner side left off, the outside being as 

 elaborate or as simple as one may 

 elect. The inner edge of the box is 

 attached to the window frame by hooks 

 and hook eyes, while the chains on 

 either side end in rings that are supported by hooks at the top. Beautiful 

 flowers, and not a few of them, are capable of being grown in such a hanging 

 garden. — American Gardening. 



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Fig. 770. — For a Window Garden. 



Hardy Beddingf Plants. — The tender plants endure but three or four 

 months, but the well selected and properly planted hardy plant bed will open 

 its display in early spring with snowdrops which are in bloom with the first 

 pleasant days, even in March. They are quickly followed by scillas and crocus. 

 Next come the tulips and narcissi, for a month ; and before they are past the 

 early flowering herbaceous plants are showing bloom, and the flowering shrubs 

 have begun a display that will only end with the autumn. By May the creep- 

 ing phlox, columbines, doronicums, Oriental poppies, German and Siberian 

 irises ; and of shrubs, the lilacs, spiraeas, Japan quince, magnolias, mollis and 

 Ghent azaleas ; of climbers, the clematis, in its splendid varieties, open a season 

 that will cover six months. June brings out rhododendrens, kalmias, roses, 

 Lilium candidum and L. elegans. July ushers in Japanese irises and lilies in 

 varieties that will show flowers until frost comes. During that period the tall 

 phloxes, yuccas, rudbeckias, gaillardias, tiger lilies, hollyhocks, single and double, 

 campanulas, rugose roses, day lilies, altheas, hydrangeas, tamarix, hardy sun- 

 flowers, and a host of other good things will also add their floral tribute. 



When the autumn opens the Japanese anemones and the old-fashioned and 

 hardy chrysanthemums come on and will bloom through early frosts and even 

 early snowstorms. — American Florist. 



