282 A WHITE-PAPER GARDEN 



artistic effect given them unless the box itself 

 recede into its proper place by means of a 

 coat of soft sage-colour or dull brown, or 

 grey earthy colour, and so ordained to ac- 

 company the living greens for which the box 

 is made. 



It is hard to tell one whose soul longs for 

 lilies that it will be wasted time and mis- 

 employed talent which tries to grow them in 

 the window garden, but it is true, and he 

 would do better to acknowledge his limita- 

 tions and plant in the large white petunias 

 which adapt themselves so admirably to the 

 place the lilies scorn. White feverfews are 

 good box - plants : so are the impatiens ; so 

 are single geraniums. Rose geraniums thrive 

 well, so do the coleus, and the pretty 

 Maurandyra. If a hanging basket or two be 

 suspended above the box it is very easy to 

 coax the trailers above and the climbers 

 below to combine their attractions, and the 

 effect is sure to be pretty. For northern 

 boxes the Boston ferns, asparagus Spren- 

 gerii, the Tradescantias, and almost all of the 

 begonias will be good. Tropaeolums make 

 good boxes if nothing else be expected to 



