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leaves, the different varieties of Clematis, the Chinese 

 Wistaria of rapid growth and lovely blue flowers, the 

 Trumpet Creeper, and young plants of Cobea Scandens. 

 The latter vine, if housed in the fall, makes a pretty 

 climber for the windows, but it is too tender to survive 

 even a slight frost, when left out of doors. 



CHAPTER VII. 

 WINDOW PLANTS. 



South and east windows are the only ones in which 

 plants will do their best ; and I would not advise farm- 

 wives in extreme Northern States to keep many varieties 

 unless they have a place suitably sunny and warm. A 

 few good Geraniums and Pelargoniums, with Fuchsias, 

 Heliotropes, and Feverfews, can be grown with very lit- 

 tle trouble. Insects seldom trouble them, and they are 

 profuse bloomers ; and if the "window garden" is con- 

 fined to a dozen pots, it is not much trouble to remove 

 them to a cellar or a frost-proof cupboard on severe 

 nights, and bring them out into the sunlight again in the 

 morning. Their cheerful verdure and brilliant blossoms 

 richly reward such painstaking. 



GERANIUMS. 



The Dwarf Geraniums are pretty for ordinary win- 

 dows, and the scarlet and the white Tom Thumbs are 

 lovely when grown in a pot together. Chrishibel is a 

 rosy pmk, and Little Dear is rose color and white. There 

 is also a dwarf salmon that is worth having. These are 

 all single. 



