CHAPTER XII 



WINDOW PLANTS AND PLANTS FOR 

 HANGING BASKETS 



AN excellent object lesson in the plants that 

 are most suitable for gardening in the East 

 End of London and other smoke-infested 

 quarters may be seen at the "Country in Town 

 Exhibition" which is held annually for four- 

 teen days in the Town Hall, Stepney. There 

 the pots of Creeping Jenny, Ivy, and other 

 suitable plants for cultivating where the air 

 is contaminated with impurities, do credit to 

 the exhibitors and show us what perseverance 

 and a knowledge of plant life under excep- 

 tionally adverse conditions of soil and atmo- 

 sphere can bring about. The exhibit from 

 Regent's Park, by authority of the First Com- 

 missioner of Works, shows at a glance the 



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