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WINDOW GARDENING. 
drawing room or boudoir, without any marked injury. The variegations of their 
foliage, spotted or shaded with tints of green, white, red and pink, are very 
unique and beautiful. The best sorts are as follows ; 
Argyrites, small foliage, prettily spotted and blotched with white. 
Bicolor splendens, a strong grower, green ground with dark red centre. 
Chantini, foliage red, 
centre spotted with 
■white. 
Wigldii, foliage 
green, beautifully spot- 
ted with red and white. 
piduratum, long, 
narrow foliage, band of 
rosy red down the cen 
tre. 
Verschnffeltii, green 
ground with crimson 
centre. 
The best soil for the 
C a 1 a d i u m is fibrous 
loam, and plenty of leaf 
mould and silver sand. 
Begonias. 
In some respects the 
most gorgeous of all 
plants with variegated 
leaves. Tliey should be 
mostly as single plants, 
i. e. only one plant in 
the centre of each box 
or basket. A large 
leaved Begonia in the 
Kig. 11.— Cahuiium. window imparts an in- 
dcr.cribably rich appearance. The following are best varieties : 
Begonia Hex, vciy showy, and a picturesque plant for exhibition purposes, 
leaves very broad, under side deep crimson, upper surface colored witli various 
spots of silvery or snowy white. 
Fiichsiodies, Saundersonii and parviflora are three very pretty varieties ; 
when in flower, the contrast of their scarlet rose and white (lowers is very fine. 
B. erecta midtiflorn, is mentioned by some florists, as especially desirable, for it 
combines the two qualities of flowers and foliage. 
B. carnea pink;i?. viarmorata, ?esh color, may be added; the first are white, 
