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the summer, will, by this time, be loaded with ita beautiful berries, which 

 are in November just beginuing to turn to a beautiful scarlet. These ber- 

 ries will hang on till June; and, while tlio plant is of very moderate price, it 

 has no superior as an ornamental shrub. In the corners put callas, which 

 should have been heeled or turned over to rest, as early as July or August 

 Ist. Their position should be partially shaded, and where they will not have 

 too much heat; when they begin to bud, they should have a plenty of warm, 

 almost hot, water furnished them daily. They, too, should be placed in a 



IKJ. a. — BAY WINDOW WITH PLAIfT PLATFORM. 



pot surrounded by a large pot, and the interstices filled in with moss. Across 

 the center of the windows place other shelves with pots of smaller flowera, 

 and, among the rest, creeping plants, such as verbenas, sweet alyssum, 

 nemaphila lobelia, mesembryanthcmum, etc., etc. On a table in the center, 

 if you can have a neat box, zinc-lined, you can sot i^ pots, Up^iitbs, 

 amaryllis, cyclamens, iris, and the finest sorts of crocus, and, packmg moss 

 around them, heep tliem moist. From the ceilhig of the bay may be suspended 

 hanging Imskets, taking the precaution to licep thorn moist. The outlay for 

 »11 this is very little, and if you are ingenious you can do it all yourself. 



