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THE HOME GARDEN. 
addition, profuse waxy flowers of scarlet, pink, and white. 
The variety known as begonia rex has immense leaves 
tinged with crimson, and ornamented with blotches of 
green and white and zones of silver. Fuchsiodes, Saunder- 
sonii , parviflora , and erecta multiflora , are good bloomers, 
with beautifully cut drooping green leaves, but rex is by 
far the richest variety. 
The begonia requires constant heat—from sixty to sev¬ 
enty-five degrees—and considerable moisture. The leaves 
should not be allowed to touch a cold window pane. 
Bouvardias will also flower freely with proper care, bear¬ 
ing generous clusters of rose, crimson, scarlet, and white 
flowers, and beginning to bloom when only three or four 
inches high. They are easily raised from cuttings, and 
require about the same treatment as the heliotrope. Jas- 
minoies has pure white, fragrant flowers; elegans , salmon 
scarlet. B. Davisonii is an extra fine white variety. 
Mignonette, though humble, is not to be despised, 
and an ornamental window-box filled only with this low- 
growing, violet-scented annual is a desirable addition to 
any room. “A pot of mignonette and another of sweet 
alyssum cost nothing, and yet few things will be found 
more pleasant and attractive in the winter season. Plants 
that appear unimportant, almost insignificant, and entire¬ 
ly eclipsed by more ambitious rivals, when the garden is 
ablaze with its summer glory, sometimes prove to be very 
queens of beauty when transferred to the sitting-room or 
the bay window.’ 5 
As late as September will answer for sowing seeds of 
these plants for winter blooming, and from three to six 
plants may be put in one pot. 
Among simple floral ornaments for a winter room, few 
are more satisfactory than an old glass globe on a large 
plate treated as follows : a small pot or can filled with 
earth is placed inside the globe, and ivy and tradescantha 
