WINDOW GARDENING. 
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** The Tuilleries gardens at the time of the great fetes, were largely decorated in 
this way — each of the numerous lamp-posts having a bed of flowers around it, 
and the whole scene being turned into a kind of conservatory in a few days. 
The number of flowers required to do this was something enormous. 
♦* The extent to which the floral embellishments of the Hotel de Ville were 
carried, may be judged from the great number of plants grown at Passy for that 
purpose, — the New Zealand Flax, which is so very useful for indoor or outdoor 
decoration, being grown to the extent of upwards of 10,000 plants and Palms, 
and all plants with fine leaves in great quantity. 
"One plant, cultivated in 
great abundance around 
Paris for winter blooming, is 
well worthy of increased at- 
tention, Epiphyllum trun- 
catum. 
" There are several varie- 
ties, and they certainly form 
most beautiful objects on 
dull December days. 
" The variegated form of 
the common Roast-beef plant 
— 7m foetidissima — may be 
seen occasionally used with 
good effect. This is a true 
hardy native which will 
deserve culture. It forms a 
very pretty plant for room 
decoration, requires none 
but the most ordinary at- 
tention, and is easily ob- 
tained. 
" The Acanthuses, too, 
and particularly J., lusitani' 
cus used so effectively out of 
doors, are also grown abun- 
dantly in rooms, where they 
do very well. Everything ng. r— Yucca aioefoiia. 
proved to do well without the protection of a case is a gain to the very large 
class, who, from choice or necessity, like to grow plants in rooms." 
A few years since a valuable communication on this subject of room decora- 
tion was given by a French gardener, Antonine Chantin, of Rue de Chatillon, 
Paris, to the Floral "World of London. Mentioning the most popular plants 
used in the window embellishments of the French Capital, as their calture 
