128 MAKING OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



and there are many other tropical vines well worth 

 trying, as well as many shrubs and bedding plants; 

 the crape myrtles, the oleanders, hibiscus and many, 

 many others. 



For window boxes there is nothing more daintily 

 graceful than the little manetta vine with its foxglove- 

 shaped blossoms of blue, of pink and of white. It 

 is easily raised from seed sown in boxes of fine soil 

 in house or hotbed in February or March. At the 

 same time one may start seeds of the thumbergia, 

 which requires similar treatment. 



