The Busy Woman s Garden Book 



greater possibilities of floriculture for in this sea- 

 son the boxes may be placed outside of the win- 

 dows if properly secured, and a much greater 

 variety of plants grown, for there is no exposure 

 for which there are not many delightful things 

 available. A north window, that to many would 

 seem especially undesirable for plants, will often 

 be found to develop the most interesting boxes. 

 All the hardier varieties of cultivated ferns may 

 be usual here, all the blooming and fibrous rooted 

 begonias, all the asparagus fern, especially A. 

 sprengeri, the various impatiens, especially I. 

 sultani, the trailing fuchsias, abutilons, varie- 

 gated wandering Jew, aspidistras, farfugiums. 

 Palm grass, Pannicum Excurrens — a palm-like 

 grass which one has to send to southern florists 

 for but which grows rankly at the north, either 

 in the house or in the open ground — is good. 

 I bedded one out in spring, intending to lift 

 in the fall for interior decoration and found it to 

 have made so sturdy a root growth, and so im- 

 mense a top that it defied a spade to move it 

 and had to be abandoned to the frost. Within 



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