THE COKONILLA. 



CoroniUn phiiica. 



TRST-CLASS window flowers are 

 not so easily fonml as may be 

 supposed by those wlio have 

 never had to look for them ; 

 but this coronilla is the very 

 type of what a window-plant 

 should be, not only in appear- 

 ance^ but in habit. It is ever- 

 green, and almost always grow- 

 ing. It flowers twice in the year 

 when thoroughly well managed. 

 It may become a " patrician tree " 

 or a "family heirloom." In 

 other wordsj the same plant may 

 be preserved for any number of 

 j'ears, and be handed down from 

 filtration to generation; and that is 

 .11, nnportant point in the character of 

 a genuine window-plant. 

 The treatment of this useful jilant is precisely the 

 same as the so-called " genista," or " broom," that the 

 gardeners know as Cj/fisns racemosiis j but the coronilla 

 is a trifle hardier, and will bear rough usage patiently; 

 and it may be fairly said that whoever fails to keep it for 



