The white and green variegated Pandanus Veitchii is 
gayer looking than the golden form, P. Sanderi 
some California or Florida dealer for a bud- 
stick of a good variety. 
A much better plan is to buy an Otaheite 
orange from the florist. The fruit is smaller 
and of no value for food, but the plants are 
dwarf — they grow only fifteen to eighteen 
inches high — and a well-grown specimen is 
usually covered with reddish-orange fruit. 
The flowers are pinkish in color. Even if 
the plant has no fruit, the deep green of its 
foliage is always attractive. These little 
orange plants seem particularly adapted to 
house culture. 
The American Wonder or Ponderosa 
lemon is the best to grow. It is a rapid 
grower and bears large, white flowers some- 
times as big as a tuberose, which are as 
fragrant as orange blossoms. The fruit is 
large — sometimes weighing one and one- 
half to two pounds — and although I have 
never eaten it, is said to be good for house- 
hold use. The plant itself, without flower 
or fruit, is worthy of a place in the window 
garden on account of its deep green foliage 
and fairly symmetrical habit. 
The best small decorative plant for the 
window garden is the rex begonia. It sel- 
When the rubbers get ‘“‘leggy’’ make new plants 
by ‘‘topping’’ with damp moss 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
dom grows more than six inches high; the 
leaves come directly from the rhizome, are 
obliquely heart-shaped, and all face one way. 
They are from six to eight inches long, and 
of a rich metallic green with a silver band. 
The original species has been crossed with 
many others,so that now one can get a variety 
of shades of green and many different mark- 
ings. If the window garden is large enough, 
space should be given to three or four different 
varieties. Their culture is easy, and they 
delight in a rich soil to which a large propor- 
tion of leaf mold has been added. 
The best specimens of the leopard plant 
or farfugium (Senecio K empferi, var. auwreo 
The sago palm (Cycas revoluta), slow growing, but 
very resistant 
maculatus) that I have ever seen have been 
grown in window gardens. There is some- 
thing about them which is always attractive. 
The leopard plant has large leaves — six to 
ten inches across — of thick, leathery texture, 
dark green color, blotched with yellow, or 
sometimes with white or pink. The leaves 
come directly from the rhizomes and the 
leafstems, and are from six inches to a foot 
long. 
Other foliage plants well worth trying in 
the house are: fragrant dragon tree (Dracena 
fragrans and Godseffiana); draceena (Cordy- 
line australis, but known in the trade as 
Dracena indivisa); curmeria (Homalomena 
Wallisii); umbrella plant (Cyperus alternt- 
folius); Japanese daphne (Daphne odora); 
camellia (Camellia Japonica); bay tree 
(Laurus nobilis), none of which insist upon 
any but the average conditions, and so may 
be grown by almost anyone. 
PLANTS FOR EDGING 
The general effectiveness of the window 
garden is much enhanced by the addition of 
a creeper of some sort as an edging to the 
window box or growing in hanging pots or 
vases. The best plant I know of is the peri- 
winkle (Vinca major), which makes a slender 
growth one to two feet long. There is a 
variegated form of this, the leaves being 
marked with yellow. A much smaller plant 
which may be used for the same purpose is 
Scirpus cernuus, universally known among 
florists as Isolepis gracilis. It has pretty, 
drooping, grass-like foliage. Other suitable 
plants for these purposes are: Wandering 
Jew (Tradescantia fluminensis and Zebrina 
pendula); snake’s beard (Ophiopogon Jabu- 
yan); variegated panicum (Oplismenus 
Burmannit). 
JANUARY, 1909 
Dragon plant(Dracena)comes in green and many 
forms variegated with gold and crimson. MD. 
tragrans the commonest 
Two vines which succeed admirably in 
the house are the German ivy (Senecio 
scandens) and the Englishivy (Hedera Helix). 
These may be trained around and over the 
window, and a most decorative effect is ob- 
tained from having a bay window festooned 
with the vines, strings being fastened for them 
tog owon. Ihave seen the ordinary sweet- 
potato used most effectively for giving a 
foliage frame toa window garden. ‘The 
tuber is not planted in soil, but merely 
placed in a wide-mouthed vessel with suffi- 
cient water to just reach the tuber. In a 
few days shoots will develop and the vine 
can be trained as desired. If this plan 
is adopted, a new tuber must be started 
every little while as the old one becomes 
exhausted. 
It should be remembered that the plants 
named above are of a tropical nature and 
must be protected from frost, even at the 
cost of light. 
The yellow fruits of the oranges are very effective 
and last all winter 
