150 PLANTS FOE WINDOW GARDENING. 



Besides the well known pink variety (H. hortensis'), there 

 are many others ; of these, H. japonica, with blue and 

 white flowers, is desirable. 



AGAPANTHUS, 



Or African Lily. A showy plant for summer blooming, 

 and too well known to need description. Soil, two parts 

 lop.:*!, one part manure, one part leaf mould. Well grown 

 it is a noble plant, but will bear much ill-usage. Treated 

 as recommended for the calla lily, and planted in a tub, it 

 forms a fine plant. 



Winter in a dry, light cellar, and water occasionally. 

 Water freely while growing. 



There is a white variety, and one with variegated foliage ; 

 both desirable ; a native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



OLEANDER. 



A very showy, but much neglected plant ; too well known 

 to need description. To bloom them in perfection, they 

 need a stove, and yet do well in the parlor and out of doors. 



Their season for blooming is July, yet that may be 

 changed, and bloom produced at any season. They flower 

 freely when scarcely a foot high, but will grow to the height 



