WI^^DOW GARDENING. li, 
a globe or aquarium of water, concentrate upon the floor and burn the carpet 
Specimens of rock work are introduced at the sides or in the rear of the casej on 
their top are placed some pots coutauiing ferns drooping over and covering the 
vacancies all up. If conveniences are at hand a little fountain maj"- be introduced, 
and be constantly throwing up its tiny streams of water. All this requires great 
pains of preparation. Tlie window completely shuts out the street view and is 
lighted only from the top, yet is a great curiosity and with some will be worth 
the trouble 
For planting in such cases as the two just described, the best plants will be the 
common English Ivy, (^Hedcra helix,) which thrives in confined places of thia 
description and rapidly throws up its green foliage. The L>/godium scandens and 
Lyoodium flaponicum a.'-*''\o\-f\y cliinV)iii<r ferns, nrrl np^il n^^nper wires to be trained 
to. Tricliomanes radtcans, HifmeriiotihiiJliim 1 inihndfjense, Af^jdenhim Jon- 
tanum are moisture lovers and generally used in furnishing tanks for the aqua- 
rium. A suggestion worth heeding is to be remembered : do not commit the error 
of procuring too large (i.sh for the aquarium; small varieties such as the gold carp 
are most suitable, and for ever}' two gallon capacity of the water tank, put in 
one carp. Of water plants the best is VaUisnena spiralis, which will grow among 
pebbles if left undisturbed. Conferva: ma}' be introduced and allowed to run 
over the rock or sides of the aquarium. 
A very pretty home design, hardly called a Window Garden, yet affording room 
for some decoration, is that of a bee hive in the window. Such a hive was actually 
placed in front of one of the library windows of the late J. C. Loudon, the famous 
landscape gardener. This window was protected by a verandah, and the front of 
