FIRST WEEK IN OCTOBER 



auriculas will blossom in a shady place, as well as hyacinths, 

 snowdrops, crocus, and tulip bulbs if well prepared. 



The best ferns for such a window are the Hart's-tongue 

 (Scolopendrium vulgare), the Common Polypody (Poly- 

 podium), and the beautiful little <c French " fern of Covent 

 Garden (Asplenium adiantum nigrum), which, however, is 

 to be found in all Devonshire lanes, its shining fronds and 

 black stems making it conspicuous in winter, for it is ever- 

 green, as well as the two other ferns above-named. 



Dwarf plants of various chrysanthemums, late plants of 

 the Victoria asters (which can be raised from the border 

 when thoroughly moist just as their buds open), neat young 

 plants of the autumn-flowering wallflowers, and of antir- 

 rhinums of the dwarf varieties can all be pressed into the 

 service of the window-box at this time of year, substituting 

 the shrubs in pots a few weeks later when the blossoms of 

 the rest have faded. In this way we may contrive to enjoy 

 flowers at our windows during the greater part of the 

 winter. 



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