340 MANUAL OF GARDENING 
plants may be used. For full exposure to the sun, it will be 
necessary to choose the more vigorous-growing kinds. In the 
latter position, suitable plants for drooping would be: trope- 
olums,* passifloras,* the single petunias, sweet alyssum, lobelias, 
verbenas, mesembryanthemums. For erect-growing plants: ge- 
raniums, heliotropes, phlox. If the position is a shaded one, the 
drooping plants might be of the following: tradescantia, Kenil- 
worth ivy, senecio* or parlor ivy, sedums, moneywort,* vinca, 
smilax,* lygodium* or climbing fern. Erect-growing plants 
would be dracenas, palms, ferns, coleus, centaurea, spotted calla, 
and others. 
After the plants have filled the earth with roots, it will 
be desirable to give the surface among them a very light 
sprinkling of bone-dust or a thicker coating of rotted manure 
from time to time during the summer; or instead of this, a 
watering with weak liquid manure about once a week. This 
is not necessary, however, until the growth shows that the roots 
have about exhausted the soil. 
In the fall the box may be placed on the inside of the window. 
In this case it will be desirable to thin out the foliage somewhat, 
shorten in some of the vines, and perhaps remove some of the 
plants. It will also be desirable to give a fresh coating of rich 
soil. Increased care will be necessary, also, in watering, since 
the plants will have less light than previously, and, moreover, 
there may be no provision for drainage. 
Porch-boxes may be made in the same general plan. Since 
the plants are likely to be injured in porch-boxes, and since these 
boxes should have some architectural effect, it is well to use 
abundantly of rather heavy greenery, such as swordfern (the 
common form of Nephrolepis exaltata) or the Boston fern, 
Asparagus Sprengeri, wandering jew, the large drooping vinca 
(perhaps the variegated form), aspidistra. With these or simi- 
lar things constituting the body of the box planting, the flower- 
ing plants may be added to heighten the effect. 
