m 
for pink, General Grant for scarlet, 
Rose Rendatler for salmon. If you 
want a double one, and tliey are very 
fine for summer flowers, and your 
box is expected to have fulfilled its 
mission by the time frost comes, get 
Gloire de Nancy, bright scarlet, very 
double and profuse; Mad. Lemoine, 
bright rose, or Asteroid, soft crimson. 
But I do not advise you to get all 
of these. I only named those I con¬ 
sider the best for the purpose. I 
would select the color I preferred 
from them, but would not mix scarlet 
and pink and salmon together. I 
think you will find the effect much 
more satisfactory if you confine your¬ 
self to shades of the same color, as, 
for instance, Master Christine for the 
centre of your garden, flanked by 
Mad. Lemoine. You want a har¬ 
mony of color, and you cannot have 
this if you blend scarlets and pinks 
together. Among the Geraniums I 
would put Heliotropes. They are 
profuse bloomers, and so very fra¬ 
grant tliat tiny are in¬ 
dispensable. Their la¬ 
vender tints will har¬ 
monize perfectly with 
your pink Geraniums. 
If you want Fuchsias, 
plant them next the 
window, where the other 
plants will shade them. 
Get Aurora, or Arabella, 
pink and white varieties, 
bios somi n g profu sely, 
and furnishing a shade 
of color that will blend 
perfectly with your Ger¬ 
aniums and Heliotropes. 
At the outside edge of 
the box put slips of some 
trailing plant, like Mo¬ 
neywort or Kenilworth 
Ivy. They will soon 
cover it with their lux¬ 
uriance, and hide its 
roughness from the eyes 
of outside spectators. 
At the ends put tubers 
of the Madeira Vine or 
roots of German Ivy. 
Or you can plant seeds 
of Morning-g lories, 
which will be prettier 
Deutzia ('renata Flore Pleno 
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Then scatter some Mignonette seed 
the box to it, if you can afford nothing 
better. In a short time it will be 
hidden, and then you will be as well 
satisfied with it as if it had cost you 
two or three dollars — perhaps better. 
You must be sure to give plenty 
of water; for, being so exposed to 
the air, the box of earth will dry out 
rapidly. Water at evening, giving 
the plants a good sprinkling. You 
will be surprised at the amount of 
bloom you get. The Geraniums, 
Fuchsias, and Heliotropes will make 
your window bright through the entire 
season, and the Mignonette will make 
your room sweet as nothing else but 
Mignonette can, and the Morning- 
glories — you know what tliey can do 
if they try; and if you don’t let them 
dry out at the roots they will do their 
best, and wreathe your window with 
their vines and flowers from June to 
October. 
Such a garden is inexpensive, and 
affords a vast amount of pleasure. A 
box of the size I have named will ac- 
Jflt commodate from ten 
to fifteen plants hand¬ 
ily, exclusive of the 
vines and Mignonette. 
But I would prefer ten 
to fifteen. They will 
be all the finer through 
the latter part of the 
season for having- 
plenty of room. A 
great mistake is made 
in crowding a 
large 
An English Flower-Mound. 
number of plants into 
the box to begin with, 
and attempting to 
malee a satisfactory 
show at the start. 
Give the plants time 
and they will satisfy 
you. If you use too 
many you dwarf the 
whole, and lose the 
luxuriance, which is 
so attractive. 
If you want a win¬ 
dow-garden of “foli¬ 
age plants,” put a Can- 
na in the centre, and 
Coleus and Centaurea 
to fill in about it.— 
Exchange. 
