258 WINDOW GARDENING. 
Ornamental Flotccring Plants. 
Amaryllis (all varieties). Dielytra spectabilis. 
Acacia armata. Epiphylluin truncatum (varietiea) 
" Drummondii. Eucharis Amazonica. 
*' grandis. Erica, many soft-wooded kinds. 
" Riceana. Epacris (all varieties). 
Azaleas (any varieties). Erythrina Marie Belanger. 
Begonia Digswellensis. Genista Everestiana. 
'* fuchsioides. " racemosa. 
" hybrida floribunda. Gardenia radicans major. 
" manicata. Ilebeclinium ianthiraura. 
" odorata. Lachenalia (many vars.) 
" Weltoniensis. Leucopogon Richei. 
Camellias (many varieties). Linum flavum, 
Callicarpa purpurea. " trigynum. 
Chrysanthemums. Nerium Oleander. 
Coronilla glauca. Poinsettia pulcherrima. 
Cyclamen Pcrsicum (var.) Statice profusa. 
Daphne Indica alba. Yallota purpurea. 
" " rubra. 
CnoicK OF Plants and their Arrangements. 
Dracixnas. 
The most popular and suitable plants for gay decoration seem now to be thf 
Draccenas. 
After they have been once placed in the window box or jardinet, the attention 
they require is but ordinary, and they will live in the atmosphere of any mod 
eratelj heated room the year round. 
The variety most used is D. terminalis, very easily managed, and always orna- 
mental ; the choice among florists often preponderates in favor of the D. ferrea 
stricta, which is still more beautifully variegated ; the D. gilfilla, with its stripOi 
of white and green, still rare, is a great novelty. The colored leaved D. Coopers 
and the green leaved D. australis, D. indidsa, D. Veiiclvii, have all an elegam 
habit, and will do well in the temperature of any sitting room rangin;^ from 60' 
to 75^ 
Othei- varieties will do well, such as the B. cannaefolia, eongesitr, rubra, strieto 
and umhraculifera. but the most preferable of these woulf". be the rubra and 
stricta. 
Marantas. 
Next in turn would be the Marantas, of which the besi varieties would be M 
pnlchella, zebrina, and also a dwarf variety of the latter. 
The zebrina is much the most popular of all this class, and according to tba 
experience of French gardeners, is the only one suitable for steady cultivation in 
apartments, as all the others succumb to the }iot and dry atmosphere insepara- 
