PLANTS FOR WINDOW GARDENING. 



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The following varieties are of proved excellence, and very 

 distinct. All will succeed in the house. 



Azalea amcena, a lovely variety ; flowers double purple ; 

 produced in great profusion in midwinter. 



Indica lateritia, salmon ; Danielsiana, bright red ; Per- 

 reyana, scarlet; Jlurreyana, rose; Indica alba, white; 

 Purpwrea, purple; Coccinea, red. 



Iveryana, pink and white ; Variegata, rose and white ; 

 Gledstanesii, white, striped with red. 



This list might be increased an hundred fold. 



THE ERICA. HEATH. 



All the plants belonging to this genus are of a low, shrub- 

 by habit, with fine acicular foliage. None are natives of 

 America. The fine varieties of our green-houses, with the 

 exception of the common Erica Mediterranean are natives 

 of the Cape of Good Hope, whence the gardener s term, 

 " Cape Heaths." 



The erica will not thrive unless the soil is adapted to its 

 peculiar nature ; this is often very difficult to learn, and 

 experience must sometimes be the teacher. The soil to 

 obtain is one of a friable nature, full of vegetable fibre. 

 We find in an old magazine the best directions we remem- 



