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WJXDOW GARDENING. 
turn, the whole being dotted over with the variously tinted Chinese Primulas,— 
a bank of these plants, in fact, high enough in its back parts to be reflected in 
the mirror, with the taller plants which surrounded it, gradually falling to the 
floor, and merging into tha 
groups of larger plants on 
cither side of the bank, the 
whole being enclosed by a low, 
gilt, wooden trellis work mar- 
gin. 
" The groups at each side 
contrasted most beautifully 
with this. Green predomin- 
ated, but there was a suf- 
ficiency of flower, while beauty 
of foi-m was full}' developed 
In the centre and back parts 
of these groups were tall speci- 
mens of the common sugar 
cane, (Sacharinum officiar 
tim,) which held their long 
and boldly arching leaves well 
over the group. These were 
supported by Palms, which 
threw their graceful lines over 
'the specimen Camellias, which 
were in their turn graced here 
and there by the presence of a 
JJraccena or dwarf Palm ; and 
so down to the front edge, 
where Cinerarias, forced 
bulbs, Primulas and Ferns, 
finished off the groups, all 
very closely placed, so that 
neither the lower part of the 
stems, nor a particle of any of 
the pots could be seen 
" Any interstices that hap- 
pened to remain between 
Kiy. 4.-As!ive Americaua. the bases of the plants were 
compactly filled with fresh green moss, which was also pressed against the little 
gilt trellis work, which enclosed the whole, so that from the uppermost point of 
the cane leaves to the floor, nothing was seen but fresh green foliage and grace- 
ful forms enshrouding the ordinary flowers of our greenhouses — that are infi- 
