Pot Plants for Windows, S^c. 137 



CHAPTEE XIX. 



POT PLANTS FOE WINDOWS, AND THE LABELLING OF 

 SPECIMENS. 



AM well aware that a great many people have 

 not the opportunity or the means to possess 

 a miniature greenhouse or Wardian case, but 

 that need not prevent them from indulging in their 

 love for pot-plants as long as they have a window. 

 Many a splendid specimen plant may be seen in the 

 Cottager's windows rivalling in health and beauty the 

 favoured inmates of the greenhouse. 



In places such as London and other large cities, 

 where window gardening has become so fashionable, 

 a great variety of plants are grown, but in country 

 towns and villages few seem to rise above the ambition 

 of a Scarlet Geranium or Fuschia. It is a great pity 

 this should be when there is so great a variety of plants 

 as easily grown and quite as cheap. The red China 

 Rose for instance makes a grand window plant, when 

 in bloom, and just as good if not better is the green 

 and variegated Hydrangea Hortensis, with its immense 

 head of bloom, which lasts for months. Gems of the 

 first water for pot culture are the hybrid Begonias. 

 Begonia Bregsi is dwarf and compact with green foliage 

 and a profusion of snow white flowers ; B. Sandersonii 

 and B. insignis, are the best pink flowering kinds; 



