138 Pot Plants for Windows, 



B. lucida and B. manicata, the best with rose-coloured 

 flowers. Then there are the Myrtle, and Calla Ethiopica 

 or Lily of the Nile, and in fact all the plants and 

 spring flowering bulbs recommended for the miniature 

 greenhouse. I will also add several very desirable 

 greenhouse plants, purposely kept out of the list, owing 

 to the great height they soon reach, making them 

 scarcely fit for the miniature greenhouse or plant case. 

 First we have the Acacia Armata or prickly Acacia, an 

 excellent pot plant for windows j then the Abutilon 

 striatum, and A. Thomsonii, and the white flowering 

 variety, Bircle de Neige ; they have heart-shaped 

 foliage and lovely bell-shaped flowers. A. striatum has 

 variegated foliage. The Deutzia gracilis is a pretty 

 pot-plant with drooping white flowers. Cytisus 

 racemosus has a profusion of yellow pea-shaped flowers, 

 and much like it in flower but larger in foliage is the 

 Coronilla glauca. Very good for window culture are 

 some of the dwarfer growing Chrysanthemums ; they 

 flower in autumn and should be grown outside, 

 plunged in a border up to the rim of the pot till the 

 flowers begin to open ; then taken inside and placed 

 in the window to flower. They require abundance of 

 water always. After flowering they should be cut 

 down and shaken out of their pots and the roots 

 separated ; you can then select as many nice little 

 pieces as you may require to pot again for next year ; 

 keep them indoors till spring is advanced, and then 

 plunge them in a border as before. Clematis Jackmanii 

 and other varities of hardy Clematis make excellent 

 window climbers grown in pots or tubs, and trained as 



