WIXDOW GARDENING 229 
hot midday snn, keep the leaves clean, do not allow any worms to hurt the 
plants, keep off the dust from the leaves with a sponge or syringe, and in accept- 
ing these prescriptions you will enjoy an excellent growth aud good health of 
your Alpine plants. 
The following list contains only such Alpine plants which are adapted for 
Window Gardening and will stand a hot summer. These plants can be brought 
through the winter season in an unheated room or cellar, leaving them in the 
same boxes and keeping them moderately moist. These fine boxes may stand 
also in the yard or garden, but must be lightly covered, when frosts begin, with 
dry leaves or a little mat, made of straw, which is placed six inches above the 
box. The plants will have, by following this rule, protection and cleanliness, 
and will pass the winter season well enough to show when brought out again in 
March, the first lovely spring blossoms. 
List 
Of Alpine Plants for Window Gardening. Only such species, which arc easily 
cultivated and to be had in American nurseries, or raised by seeds as other 
herbaceous i)lants : 
1. Achillea tomcntosa, with yellow flowers in spring, and downy leaves, of a 
dwarfish growth. 
2. Adonis vervialifi, with large yellow flowers in spring, on the stalks, about 
ten inches high, useful for the centie of a group. 
3. AhjuRum saxatile compactum, with fine yellow flowers in spring, of a dwarf 
habit and nice appearance. 
4. Anemone nemorosa, with pair rosy flowers. 
5. Anemone angelosa (^Hepatica) , with beautiful blue flowers, which appear 
very early in spring. 
G. Anemone hepntica (^Hepatica triloba^, with red, blue and white flowers, 
and varieties with double flowers, and of a dwarf habit. 
7. Anemone ranunculoides, the golden yellow wood Anemone, height, five or 
six inches. 
8. Antennaria tomentosa, a very dwarfish silvery leaved plant ; a native of the 
Rocky Mountains. 
9. Arnbis alhida fol. variegata, a native of the mountains of Greece, and of a 
dwarf habit; flowers are white and blue, leaves beautifully variegated. 
10. Avmeria vulgaris, a very pretty litlle plant, with soft hlac or white flo\»- 
ers springing from dense cushions of grasslike leaves. 
11. Aster aljnnn, the blue daisy of the Alps, of dwarf habit and large pale 
blue flowers with a deep yellow eye. 
12. Bdlis perennis, fl. x>l-, ^ith white and red flowers. 
13. CalandriniaumlieUata, a native of Chili, of a dwarf habit, with crimson 
fi 'wers like the Porfulaccn. 
14. Cnrnpanuln Garrjnriirn,^ fine dwarf Harebell, with kidney shaj)cd downj 
leaves and bluisli purple flowers. 
