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CHAPTER XXXVI. 



FLOWERS WHICH WILL GROW IN THE SHADE. 



There are few plants that will flower in places from 

 which sunshine is entirely excluded. Some plants will 

 grow well enough, developing shoots and leaves, but 

 flowers of nearly all kinds must have some sunshine. Of 

 those that do well and flower when planted out in the 

 open ground where sunlight only comes for two or three 

 hours during the day, may be named the following : 

 Calceolarias, Fuchsias, Lobelias, Herbaceous Phloxes, 

 Pansies, Forget-me-nots, Lily of the Yalley, and other 

 herbaceous plants and shrubs whose native habitat is 

 shady woods. Perhaps a better effect is produced in 

 such situations by ornamental leaved plants, such as Co- 

 leuses of all kinds, Amaranths, Achyranthes, Caladi- 

 ums, Cannas, and other plants with high colored or orna- 

 mental leaves. "With these may be combined the differ- 

 ent styles of white or gray-leaved plants, such as Centau- 

 reas, Cinerarias, Gnaphaliums — plants known under the 

 general popular term of " Dusty Millers." For our own 

 part we much prefer to devote shaded situations to such 

 plants, rather than to see the abortive attempts to produce 

 flowers made by plants in positions where there is no sun- 

 shine. It may be here remarked that the cultivator of 

 plants in rooms should understand the necessity of sun- 

 light to plants that are to flower, and endeavor to get 

 them as near as possible to a window having an eastern or 

 a southern aspect. The higher the temperature, the more 

 plants suffer for the want of light. Many plants, such 

 as Geraniums, Fuchsias, or Eoses, might remain in a 

 temperature of 40 degrees, in a cellar for example, away 

 from direct light for months without material injury, 

 while if the cellar contained a furnace keeping up a tern- 



