DESCRIPTION OF WINDOW GARDEN. 
[This sketch and article received first prize.l 
This room is seventeen by thirteen and a half, and 
eleven in height. The windows are provided with 
trellises of a peculiar construction, made very light, 
of white wood stained black walnut, and project into 
the room fifteen inches. They are attached to boxes 
very narrow in front, but widening at the window, 
and are supported by brackets. The first window has 
Lophospermum and Madeira Vines, and a Japanese 
Woodbine, which will soon throw out its leaves, also 
Tradescantia to train upas well as droop around the 
boxes. There too is Portulaeca not yet out of bloom. 
The stand is a 
revolving one, 
like that already 
described, and 
contains a varie¬ 
gated Abutilon 
in the centre, a 
Heliotrope, scar¬ 
let Begonia, two 
Carnations, red 
and white, a small 
Abutilon Stria¬ 
tum, a Fuchsia, 
all in bud and 
bloom ; also a 
white Petunia. 
In the hanging 
pot is a golden 
variegated i v y- 
leaved Geranium. 
T h e second 
window has Co- 
bceas, green and 
variegated, a Ma¬ 
deira vine, Wood¬ 
bines, which, like 
the Japanese va¬ 
riety, will soon 
start into rapid 
growth, and 
Tradescantia t o 
droop and climb. 
On the top of the 
trellis is a large 
plant o f varie¬ 
gated V i n c a 
(Strong’s Seed¬ 
ling), its long, trailing stems being very effective for 
festooning. The stand in the centre contains a large 
Calla in bloom, the Spotted Calla Maculata intermin¬ 
gling its leaves, Heliotrope, scarlet Bouvardia, pink 
Begonia, white Eupatorium, all in bloom, a fern-leaved 
Geranium, Ceutaurea, Golden Feather, and Coleuses, 
two dark and two crimson, grouped around the Callas. 
In the hanging-pot a blooming scarlet Tropoeolum. 
Between the windows, occupying the wall, are five 
black walnut brackets holding pofs of Ivy and vari¬ 
egated Tradescantia, a sketch in colored crayon of a 
scene among the Andes, two dark medallions, and a 
large Lily chroino. The corner is furnished with a 
broad shelf holding a large Criuum, Retinosporas, 
Plumosa, P. Aurea, and Squarrosa, five in number, 
and any occasional plants as required. The front edge 
has a very long and narrow ziuc pan filled with Tra¬ 
descantia, green and variegated, and at each end are 
pots of T. Febriua, which is very thick and long, the 
whole forming a very fine draping for a column of 
Colosseum Ivy, which stands directly in front, having 
for its base a double block of squares, the upper one 
the smaller. Directly over this hangs three moss 
baskets. The walls of the corner have four pictures, 
Window Garden of Mrs. Clara F Sweetzer, Peabody, Mass. 
Autumn with its fruits in colored crayons, and a 
large oil chromo with figures and flowers, below, and 
two sketches of beaches in Manchester in colored 
crayons, above. 
The wall garden seen in the drawing has for its cen¬ 
tral object a copy in oils of Landseer’s “ Two Dogs,” 
surrounded by five large Ivies springing from pots on 
walnut brackets grouped on the wall underneath. 
Over it is a pair of antlers, around which the Ivies 
twine and droop. Above all a sketch in colors of 
Mingo beach. Directly in front is a square stand of 
black walnut, upon which is placed a part of the trunk 
of a small spruce tree, with a portion of its roots, 
forming irregular hollows and projections. Here are 
small ferns and mosses, with the bright berries of the 
Partridge Vine and other pretty little bits from the 
woodlands; choice sprays of variegated Tradescantia, 
its white and yellow markings thrown out in beautiful 
and effective contrast with the dark green of the 
mosses; the frosty Zebrina, with its crimson shadings 
and tiny crimson bloom, and Colosseum Ivy, its deli¬ 
cate foliage creeping down to the floor. On the top 
of the trunk a large flower-pot saucer, filled with Tra¬ 
descantia, to droop down, and in it a large variegated 
Yucca in a pot, 
also bordered 
with Tradescan¬ 
tia. On each side 
stands a pot of 
Ivy trained on a 
trellis, more than 
five feet in height. 
On each side of 
the trellis, and a 
little back of it, 
are two black 
walnut stands for 
single plants, 
ferns, or any oth¬ 
ers that suit. At 
present a Dra¬ 
caena Terminal is, 
with striped Tra¬ 
descantia occu¬ 
pies the one in 
sight in the draw¬ 
ing. The door¬ 
way at the left, 
from which the 
door has been re¬ 
moved, has a 
trellis with Ake- 
b i a s Quinata, 
and, hanging 
over the centre, 
a very fine Ivy 
(Rhomboidia Ob- 
ovata.) Through 
it is seen a win¬ 
dow trellised and 
surrounded with 
Ivies, with a large rustic hanging basket with Ivies in 
variety, English, and smaller leaved, Marmorata ele- 
gans, Chrysocarpa, Palmata aurea, and Lutea 
minor. 
A stand of Geraniums is in the centre, which is 
draped like the rest with Tradescantia. 
Between the doorways on the left, on a bracket, 
and trained to the wall, is a truly regal Ivy Regnori- 
ana, very effective in the size and texture of its heart- 
shaped leaves. 
