258 WINDOW GARDENING. 



Ornamental Flowering Plants. 



Amaryllis (all varieties). Dielytra spectabilis. 



Acacia armata. Epiphyllum truncatum (varieties) 



" Drummondii. Eucharis Aniazonica. 



" grand is. Erica, many soft-wooded kinds. 



" Riceana. Epacris (all varieties). 



Azaleas (any varieties). Erythrina Marie Belanger. 



Begonia Digswellensis. Genista Everestiana. 



" fuchsioides. " racemo.sa. 



" hybrida iioribunda. Gardenia radicans major. 



" manicata. Hebeclinium ianthimum. 



" odorata. Lachenalia (many vars.) 



" Weltoniensis. Leucopogon Richei. 



Camellias (many varieties). Linum flavum. 



Callicarpa purpurea. " trigynum. 



Chrysanthemums. Nerium Oleander. 



Coronilla glauca. Poinsettia pulcherrima. 



Cyclamen Persicum (var.) Statice profusa. 



Daphne Indica alba. Vallota purpurea. 



" " rubra. 



CHOICE OF PLANTS AND THEIR ARRANGEMENTS. 

 Drac&nas. 



The most popular and suitable plants for gay decoration seem now to be thi 

 Draccenas. 



After they have been once placed in the window box or jardinet, the attention 

 they require is but ordinary, and they will live in the atmosphere of any mod 

 eratel} heated room the year round. 



The variety most used is D. terminalis, very easily managed, and always orna- 

 mental ; the choice among florists often preponderates in favor of the D. ferrea 

 stricta, which is still more beautifully variegated ; the D. gilfilla, with its stripy. 

 of white and green, still rare, is a great novelty. The colored leaved D. Coo^7\ 

 and the green leaved D. australis, D. indivisa, D. Veilclvii, have ail an eiegam 

 habit, and will do well in the temperature of any sitting room ranging from 60' 

 to 75. 



Other varieties will do well, such as the D. cannaefolia, congener, rubra, stricto 

 and nmbraculifera, but the most preferable of these woulr 1 . be Ihe rubra and 

 stricta. 



IMarantas. 



Next in turn would be the Marantas, of which the besl varieties would be M 

 pulchella, zebnna, and also a dwarf variety of the latter. 



The zcbritia is much the most popular of all this class, and according to tb 

 experience of French gardeners, is the only one suitable for steady cultivation in 

 apartments, as all the others succumb to the hot and dry atmosphere insepara- 



