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PLANTS FOR WINDOW GARDENING. 



near the glass, and, by frequent turning, prevented from 

 becoming one-sided. Some varieties are of symmetrical 

 form by nature ; others require much care to control the 

 too luxuriant branches. 



Heaths strike freely from cuttings. Take the tops of the 

 young shoots, about an inch in length ; prepare a pot or 

 pan of heath soil ; cover this with silver sand to the depth 

 of half an inch ; insert the cuttings about half their length, 

 as thickly as you please ; cover them with a glass, and 

 frequently wipe the moisture from the inner surface of the 

 glass ; keep them slightly moist, and shelter from the direct 

 rays of the sun. 



When rooted, pot off the cuttings into small pots filled 

 with heath soil, with the addition of a little more sand than 

 is used for the old plants ; as soon as the season permits, 

 plant them out to make growth. In re-potting plants or 

 cuttings, care should be taken never to sink the crown of 

 the root lower than it was before ; rather raise than 

 sink it. 



There is no plant which makes a greater show, or proves 

 more attractive as a specimen, than the erica. In England, 

 it is grown in the greatest perfection, some of the plants 

 being twelve feet high, and eight feet in thickness. Can a 



