110 PLANTS FOR WINDOW GARDENING. 



CHAPTER VI. 



PLANTS FOR WINDOW GARDENING, CONTINUED. 



SMILAX: History. Soil. Culture. GELSEMIUM: Cultuie. STEVIA: 

 Soil. Culture. PETUNIA: History. Soil. Culture. FERNS IN THE 

 PARLOR. CHRYSANTHEMUMS: Varieties for window culture. AGAVE, 

 or CENTURY PLANT: Species. Culture. GERANIUMS, or PELARGO- 

 NIUMS: New Variegated-leaved. Double. New Ivy-leaved. PALMS 

 FOR HOUSE CULTURE. 



THE SMILAX. 



[HE plant commonly called smilax is not a 

 true smilax, but a liliaceous plant from 

 the Cape of Good Hope, botanically 

 known as Myrsipliyllum, so called from 

 the resemblance of the foliage to that of a myrtle. 

 There are two species M. asparagoides, which is the 

 kind so commonly grown, and M. angustifolium. Both 

 species are delicate twining plants, with bright- green foli- 

 age (we speak in popular parlance, the parts of these 

 plants usually called leaves being only metamorphosed 



