THE CANADIAN HOKTIGDLTUFJST. 



foliage and monstrous truss of salmon colored flowers, is a gem. Geraniums 

 deliglit in tho sunshine, fair dirt and a moderate snpply of water. They 

 require to spread themselves to get the best results from them. 



Certain vai-ieties of fuchsias are good winter bloomers, and all are excel-, 

 lent window plants. They are voracious feeders, however, and will not 

 thrive upon the same dirt that geraniums will. A liberal quantity of well 

 tlecayed manure must be given them. They are very fond of copperas, and 

 some people put rusty nails in the earth they are growing in. A correS' 

 pondent says, having heard of the above, she knew where there was some 

 water standing in an iron kettle which had been in it for months till 

 thoroughly impregnated with the iron. She put a cupful of the liquid to a 

 pail of water and gave her plants a taste of it occasionally. She is so much 

 pleased with the result she advises all her friends to try it. 



Now I have said considerable about plants which delight in the sunshine, 

 and of course there will be some wanted for the shady places. I have yet 

 to find a better class for the purpose than the Rex Begonias. In a log basket 

 only fourteen inches long, I have two of them, on which the loaves ai-e sixteen 

 inches long, and they get absolutely no furtlier cax-e than abundance of water 

 at the roots, and constant shade. Some people thiuk it hard to grow these 

 })lants, but it is an erroneous idea. They increase and multiply very 

 rapidly onoe one understands how to grow them; and flowering begonias are 

 capital window plants, constant bloomers, easily grown and just the thing 

 for an amateur. 



The winter window garden is also much enlivened and perfumed by the 

 hyacinth, lily of the valley and other plants which grow from bulbs, to ba 

 planted iu the Fall. — Mb. Rennie. 



HYDRANGEA PARINCULATA. 



This new hardy flowering shrub is offered to those members of the 

 Association who wish to give it a trial, irj the expectation from what 

 is now known of it that it will prove to be a very gratifying addition 

 to the number of those shrubs which are in flower in the latter part 

 of the season. We liave comparatively few which bloom after mid- 

 bummer, and none which retain their flowers for such a length of time, 

 It is said to be as hardy as a lilac, and is esteemed by cultivators as 

 the finest addition to our list of flowering shrubs that has been made 

 within the past twenty years. The flowers are borne in large clusters 

 or panicles on the ends of the branches. Sometimes these panicles 

 are nearly a foot in length and almost as broad. The flowers are 

 white, and remain for several weeks, often changing in the end of the 

 autumn to a pink color. 



