PLANTS FOR WINDOW GARDENING. 101 



of ten or fifteen feet, forming splendid trees covered with 

 rose-colored, white, or variegated flowers. 



Give them plenty of pot room in soil, two parts loam, two 

 parts peat, one part well-rotted manure. Being subject to 

 white scale, frequent washings are desirable. 



They may be wintered in a light cellar, and then should 

 be but little watered ; during the growing and blooming 

 seasons, water should be abundantly supplied. 



The principal varieties are double rose (Nerium oleander 

 splendens), striata pleno, with double striped flowers, pur- 

 purea, dark red, and as many as fifty named varieties, 

 all good. 



PITTOSPORUM. 



This is an old-fashioned plant, a favorite for its fragrant 

 flowers rather than for any beauty of foliage or blossom ; 

 the former is dull green, the latter dirty white. 



The common variety (P. ToUra) is a native of New 

 South Wales, and in England is a hardy wall plant; with us 

 it is a parlor plant, blooming from February to May. Soil, 

 three parts loam, with one each of leaf mould, sand, and 

 manure. 



Water freely -while in bloom and growth. During the 



