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PLANTS FOR WINDOW GARDENING. 



CHAPTER VI. 



PLANTS FOR WINDOW GARDENING, CONTINUED. 



Smilax: History. — Soil. — Culture. Gelsemium: Culture. Stevia: 

 Soil. — Culture. Petunia: History.— Soil. — Culture. Ferns in the 

 Parlor. Chrysanthemums : Varieties for window culture. Agave, 

 or Century Plant: Species. — Culture. Geraniums, or Pelargo- 

 niums: New Variegated-leaved. — Double. — New Ivy-leaved. Palms 

 for House Culture. 



THE SMILAX. 



HE plant commonly called smilax is not a 

 true smilax, but a liliaceous plant from 

 the Cape of Good Hope, botanically 

 known as Myrsiphyllum, so called from 

 the resemblance of the foliage to that of a myrtle. 

 There are two species — M. asparagoides, which is the 

 kind so commonly grown, and 31. angustifolium. Both 

 species are delicate twining plants, with bright- green foli- 

 age (we speak in popular parlance, the parts of these 

 plants usually called leaves being only metamorphosed 



