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many feet long, arching gracefully over the sides of 

 the box. 



For vines which both climb and trail, festoon and 

 drape themselves about the box in graceful profusion 

 there is nothing more charmingly delicate than the 

 maurandia, and the white flowered solanum and sear- 

 let manetta vine are especially pretty when grown 

 together. Where a tall climbing vine is desired there 

 are three especially desirable vines to choose, the 

 Cobaea scandens, the various Passilflora — P. Pfordtii, 

 for preference — and the Japanese morning glory. 

 Any one of these will climb to an upstairs window, 

 blooming every step of the way, and are easy to 

 control. 



For south and west window boxes all the bright, 

 sun-loving plants may be grown, geraniums, camphor 

 geraniums, feverfew, petunias, verbenas, justitias, 

 heliotropes, ageratums, PMox Brv/mmondA and coleus 

 — ^if the tops are kept pinched back so that they do 

 not get "leggy." Anything that would do well in 

 similar exposures in the open ground may be used in 

 the south or west box. 



Those plants which love the morning sun, but shrink 

 from the full glare of the sun at high noon and later, 

 should find a home in the east boxes. Petunias, of 

 course, which dO well anywhere, ageratums, helio- 

 tropes, fuchsias, tuberous begonias, fancy leaved cal- 

 adiums, Panicum excurrenS) aralias, aspidistras bou- 



