WINDOW GARDENING. 6l 



Latania borbonica and Corypha australis are excellent; 

 and of Draccznas, D. terminalis, with its crimson leaves, 

 and D. indivisa, with its drooping green, fountain-like 

 foliage, are good types, though there are scores of 

 others, prominent among which are the fancy leaved 

 Caladiums, Rex Begonias, and Crotons, for partially shaded 

 verandas. If the basket has handles, some climbing 

 plant, such as Ivy or Climbing Fern, etc., may be trained 

 on these, while the plants used for drooping over the 

 sides may be such as are advised for window boxes. 



If baskets or vases are in very exposed situations, such 

 as cemeteries, where water cannot be easily given, it is 

 best to use succulent plants, such as Echeverias and 

 Sempervivums, (House Leek,) for the centers of the vases 

 or baskets, and for the pendent plants, some of the 

 beautiful forms of the Mesembryanthemums or Scdums, 

 (Stone-crop.) All of these plants thrive with compara- 

 tively little moisture when once established in the soil, 

 and present a good appearance, even if watered copiously 

 only once a week in the driest weather. 



PLANTS IN ROOMS. 



Although plants can now be purchased almost every- 

 where at very low rates, it is always a satisfaction to the 

 housewife who is a lover of plants to know that the plant 

 she now admires and cares for was of her own creation ; 

 that she herself raised it from a slip or a seed. But as 

 the best modes of propagating plants would involve too 

 much space in this article, I must refer such as need 

 instruction on the raising of plants from slips or seeds 

 to the article on The Propagation of Plants, page 67. 

 But whether the plants have been raised at home or pur- 

 chased from the florist, it is all important that they be in 



