NEW YORK, OCTOBER, 1876. 
Price 12 Cents 
By Henry T. Williams, 
leaves, to woo a place among the more delicate vines 
in the window garden. 
This room is warmed by a wood stove, and the lire 
is seldom entirely out, from early fall till spring. My 
windows are fitted with double panes of glass, and are 
frost-proof when all cracks are stopped. I always 
WINDOW GARDENING. 
My window garden has a south exposure, and con¬ 
sists of a box three feet long, eighteen inches wide, and 
a foot deep. Early in September I filled it with rich 
earth and started my plants. At each end is a thrifty 
Boston Smilax, which I raised from seed started in the 
the centre, with a Shot Canna, a sweet-scented Gera¬ 
nium, an Aloe, and a trained Boston Smilax. On a 
shelf, high over the box, are a Fuchsia, Wax Plant; 
Carnation, Heliotrope, two double Geraniums, a pot of 
Colisseum Ivy, and midway between this and the box 
is a hanging basket of Oxalis. The Swallovr-tail 
Woodward’s Gardens, San Francisco. 
Cactus, with thirty or more beautiful flowers, some of 
them not fully open, but dazzling with beauty, are the 
central attraction of this garden. The Smilax vines 
are trained across the window and around it, but do 
not exclude the sun. The Ivy-leaf Geranium is 
throwing out its long tendrils, filled with thick, glossy 
house in April; Madeira Vines, Petunias, Pinks, Di¬ 
centra, Dusty Miller, pretty Moss, Yellow Myrtle, 
and Wandering Jew', are at the ends and on one side; 
the centre is filled wfith Cyclamen, a mixed variety, 
for winter blooming. On a low shelf, below the box, 
opposite the window, stands a magnificent Calla, for 
keep water on the stove, and water the plants with 
warm water, and use a sprinkler to keep them clean. 
I stir the ground often, and if any signs of green lice 
or black flies appear, sprinkle or dust the plants with 
Scotch snuff, and they soon disappear. 
Cornwall, Vt. Mrs. E. A. Warner. 
