150 TOWN PLANTING 



THE MONEY WORT or CREEPING JENNY 

 (Lysimachia Nummularia) evidently is well 

 suited for window culture in the most smoky 

 parts of our larger towns. Planted in good 

 dampish loam, it soon spreads about and 

 quickly forms a mass of healthy foliage, 

 which during the summer is studded with its 

 myriads of golden flowers. At an exhibition 

 held in what might well be described as the 

 smokiest and most confined of the London 

 districts it was surprising to what a pitch of 

 perfection the cultivation of this poor man's 

 flower had been brought. From out of the 

 narrow, confined streets where an impure, 

 smoke-laden atmosphere must ever be pre- 

 sent, no less than fifteen large pots and pans 

 of the Lysimachia were brought, each vying 

 with the other in point of general health and 

 floriferousness. It is certainly a capital town 

 plant, of simple requirements, and one of the 

 showiest, when in flower, that could be 

 named. 



CAMPANULA MAYII and C. ISOPHYLLA 

 ALBA are most successfully used as window 



