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fault is that it will grow shabby before the season 

 is over, when it had better be pulled up and replaced 

 by a fresher vine that has been grown in a pot for 

 the purpose and can be slipped into place without 

 checking its growth. 



Perhaps no plant is more satisfactory for a south 

 or west window-box than a good Geranium either 

 the dark, rich vermilion of the S. A. Nutt, or the vivid 

 scarlet of the Bruant. Both of these appear to bet- 

 ter advantage when contrasted with white flowers. 

 Camphor Geranium is excellent, being a freer bloom- 

 er than other white Geraniums, and the Giant White 

 Antirrhinum is especially vivid. Double white Pe- 

 tunias and white Phlox Drummondi are also good. 

 Purple Ageratums and Heliotrope are charming with 

 scarlet and white. The large-flowered Ivy Geraniums 

 Souvenir de Charles Turner are the best, and do 

 finely in east and west window-boxes, while the varie- 

 gated variety makes a lovely mass of pendent foliage 

 for an east or north box. Trailing Fuchsia, Japanese 

 Morning-glory, Glechoma, and Wild Cucumber all 

 do well on the north side of the house. The follow- 

 ing combinations may all be depended upon to give 

 satisfactory results: 



Southern Exposure. 



No. i. 

 Bruant Geranium White Antirrhinum. S. A. Nutt Geranium 



(scarlet). (cardinal). 



Heliotrope. Heliotrope. 



White Maurandya. White Maurandya. 



