SUNLIGHT ARRANGEMENTS OF PLANTS. 21 



the hot dry atmosphere and dust of living rooms 

 excluded to the infinite advantage of the occupants 

 of the window, though not of the room. 



NORTH WINDOW PLANTS. 



A very satisfactory result may be reached even 

 in windows from which the sun is entirely excluded 

 by a judicious selection of ornamental foiliaged and 

 other shade-loving plants. The following are 

 names of a few plants suitable for north or other 

 windows not having sunlight. Anemone, Achyr- 

 anthes, Begonia Rex, Chinese Primrose, Coliseum 

 Ivy (Linaria Cymbalaria), Convallaria (Lily of the 

 Valley) Ferns, Lysimachia Xummularia (Mony- 

 wort) Lycopodiums, Mountain of Snow and other 

 Silver Leaved Geraniums, Mrs. Pollock and other 

 Tricolar Geraniums, Pansies, Smilax and Violets. 



ARRANGEMENT OF PLANTS. 



A symmetrical arrangement of plants tends to 

 enhance their attractiveness, grouping or separating 

 them to produce the best effect. Some plants of 

 elegant and graceful habit appear to advantage 

 alone, their individual beauty is entirely lost when 

 grouped with others. A large number produce 

 the finest effects in groups. Their arrangement 

 affords a wide scope for exercising refined taste. 

 An eye for the beautiful is necessary to place each 

 plant in such a position as to hide its defects, if it 

 has any, and at the same time exhibit all its attrac- 



