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shade-loving plants such as the fuchsias — es- 

 pecially the trailing varieties, the ferns and 

 asparagus vines, begonias and the like. Prim- 

 roses do very well in north window boxes 

 and will often continue in bloom all summer, 

 and the foliage is sure to be ornamental as 

 the primrose is quite dependent for this part 

 of its beauty on a position where its ferny 

 leaves will not be injured or disturbed. 



The window box malces the ideal place for 

 the growing of plants too tender or choice to 

 be bedded out in the open ground and often 

 solves the problem as to what disposition to 

 make of one's cherislied liouse plants during 

 summer. The annuals, too, may be very suc- 

 cessfully grown in window boxes and may be 

 depended upon for a wealth of briglit color 

 throughout the summer. The scarlet, tlie 

 white and the pink verbenas; the scarlet, white, 

 buff and pink phlox drummondi are equally 

 charming, while the purple ageratums are 

 beautiful combined with either. Then there 

 are the scarlet and the white anterrhinums 

 and the white camphor geraniums, the candy- 

 tuft and the sweet alyssum and always the 

 brilliant nasturtiums for vines. 



Under the kitchen windows may be grown 

 boxes of mint and of parsley and, if kept back 

 to a moderate size, a phuit or two of Celestial 

 pepper. 



The following list of plants which may 

 be grown together in window boxes may be 

 of assistance in planning boxes for the various 

 exposures : 



M'tst irindiiu- Box-is 

 Scarlet Geranium Scarlet C.'craiiium Scarlet Geranium 



White Camplior Geranium Wliite Camphor Geranium 



Solanum Seafortliianuin Manetta Vine Solarium Seafortliianum 



Srnml 



Scarlet Geranium Scarlet Geranium Scarlet Geraniunr 



Wliite Anterrliinum White Aiiterrhinum 



White Maurandia Vine Var. V^inca Wliite Mauraiidia Vine 



ThirJ 



Pink Geranium Pink Geranium Pink Geranium 



Heliotrope Heliotrope 

 Var, Glechorna Var. Vinca Var. Cilecliuma 



Fourth 



Pink Double Petunia Pink Petunia Pink Petunia 



White Candytuft White Candytuft 



Wild Cucumber Wiltl Cucumber 



Fifth 



Scarlet Anterrliinum White Anterrliinum Scarlet Anterrliinum 



Scarlet Verbena Scarlet Verbena 



Maurandia Vine Maurandia Vine Maurandia Vine 



Euit If'inJows 



White Tuberous Begonia White Begonia White Tuberous Begonia 

 Pink Ivy Geranium Pink Ivy Cieranium 



Secon/J 



Scarlet Tuberous Begonia Scarlet Begonia Scarlet Begonia 



Scarlet Begonia Scarlet Begonia 



Trailing Begonia Var. Vinca Trailing Begonia 



T/iir,/ 



Fancy Leaved Caladium Caladium Caladium 



Caladium Caladium 

 Passion Vine (Southern Beauty) Passion Vine (Southern Beauty) 



Fourth 



Pink Justitia White Candytuft Pink Justitia 



Pink Trailing Abutilon Pink Trailing Abutilon 



North It 'inJnv Boxes 

 Begonia Feastii Begonia Argent Guttata Farfugium f.'randi 



Asparagus Sprengerii Asparagus Sprengerii 



Trailing Fuchsia 



Second 



Begonia Diadcma Aspisistra Begonia Manicata Aurea 



Sword Fern Pierson's Boston Fern 



Trailing Abutilon Abutilon Sprengeri Trailing Abutilon 



Fourth 



Begonia Paul Bruant Dracena Begonia Miiabunda 



Uracena Dracena 

 Trailing I'uchsia Vinca 'F railing I'uchsia 



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