58 PLANTS FOR WINDOW GARDENING. 



The proper soil is, three parts loam, one leaf mould, 

 one manure, with a sprinkling of sand. 



Salvia patens is an exquisite blue flowered variety. It 

 blooms well in the garden in summer, and the fleshy roots 

 may be preserved like a dahlia through the winter. 



There are many other fine varieties. 



THE TROP^EOLUM. 



This flower, from its earliest discovery and introduction, 

 has been a popular favorite. As year by year newer varieties 

 have been discovered, or finer seedlings raised from old 

 favorites, it has steadily advanced in favor, till now, the 

 rich man's choicest green-house and the poor man's garden 

 alike boast some of the varieties of this beautiful plant. In 

 the limits of a short article, like the present, it will be 

 impossible, of course, to give a detailed description, or even 

 to mention all the varieties ; many are only desirable in a 

 collection, being of inferior beauty ; while others are rare, 

 or of difficult culture, and therefore found only in the green- 

 houses of amateurs. 



The different varieties of tropaaolum divide themselves 

 into three distinct classes. First, those with bulbous, or 

 rather tuberous roots, such as Trojjceolum azureum and 



