WINDOW BOXES AND PORCH PLANTS 215 



conditions. Gobsea scandens will trail down or climb up. Creeping 

 Jennie (Lysimachia nummularia) succeeds admirably in shade and, 

 furthearmore, in some sections of the country it can be gathered from 

 the wild. Kenilworth Ivy (Linaria cymbalaria), a neat, nearly hardy, 

 lavender-flowered trailer, can be tried, also Asparagus Sprengeri, a 

 plant so popular with the florist and very useful in the window box. 



Nothing better bespeaks home Joys, grace and comforts than a weU-filled 

 window box 



Trafling plants of less rampant growth are: Lobelia erinus (not 

 the compacta variety); the flowering habit is unexceUed. Another 

 blue is the Ageratum, which, like LobeUa, is always in bloom, and 

 it is fragrant. The trailing varieties of Coleus have a good habit, 

 but the colors are much mixed. Verbenas and Petunias, are useful 

 by themselves as weU as the front margin of the box. 



A little plant useful for the more personal porch boxes is the 

 Forgetmenot. It is not very permanent but will bloom when 

 many of the other plants have only started growth. Whenjit finishes 

 it may be dug up. The remaining plants wiU, no doubt, keep'up_the 

 foliage and flower elFect. 



