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The Window-Sill and the Area. 
ferns would soon perish, and greenhouse plants scarcely live. For such a 
spot there is a host of subjects available, and chief amongst them certain 
succulents, such as Sempervivums , Sedums , Yuccas, Agaves , and the curious 
Pachiphyton , Make the drainage secure, provide a bed of good loam, with 
plenty of sand and broken bricks intermingled, give plenty of water while the 
plants are growing, and none at all, or very little indeed, during the season 
of rest. 
Where shall we find a spot in which not any plant in the whole 
world can live ? It will be a hard task to find a spot where vegetation is 
impossible, but if it be found, human life would be endangered by inhabiting 
it, and so we may take plants of some sort with us wherever we go, and 
make them the quiet companions of our daily life. 
SELECTIONS OF PLANTS FOR WINDOW BOXES. 
SPRING. 
Bulbs. -Hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, crocus, snowdrops, scillas. 
Plants. —Wallflowers, common yellow and coloured primroses, daisies, 
Veronica saxatilis, Iberis sempervirens, Arabis albida, Aubretia purpurea, 
Alyssum montana, Phlox amsena, and Nelsoni. 
summer. 
Flowering Plants. —Zonal pelargoniums, petunias, heliotropes, fuch¬ 
sias, golden and white marguerites, lobelias, balsams, tuberous begonias 
ageratums. 
Foliage Plants. —Coleus, Cineraria maritima,-Centaurea ragusina com- 
pacta, Iresine Herbstii and I. Lindeni, Pyrethrum aureum. 
Climbers. —Tropaeolum Lobbianum, Cobaea scandens, Lophospermum scan- 
dens, Eccremocarpus scabra, Thunbergia alata. 
Drooping Plants. —Ivy-leaved pelargoniums, Thunbergia alata, Lophos¬ 
permum scandens, petunias, and Tropaeolum Lobbianum. 
Climbing Annuals. —Tropaeolum majus, T. canariense, Convolvulus 
major, sweet peas. 
Dwarf Annuals. —Godetias, candytuft, Virginian stock, Nemophila 
insignis, Kaulfussia amelloides, Eschscholtzia crocea, mignonette, sweet 
alyssum, night-scented stocks, china asters. 
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