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The planting of window boxes can be given striking individu¬ 
ality by such arrangements as this unusually gay one in which 
vines have been trained on connecting loops of wire 
annuals; cobaea scandans, 
a quick growing annual 
vine; phlox Drummond i, 
an annual that comes in 
many brilliant colors and 
flowers freely and long; 
verbena, rich in color and 
trailing in habit; coleuns, 
for its colorful leaves; 
laivtana, a half-hardy per¬ 
ennial constantly in flower 
with verbena-like heads of 
orange, white and rose 
flowers; wandering Jew, an 
excellent trailer; portu- 
laca, which shows a great 
variety of colors; sweet 
Alyssum, especially good 
for a front edging of the 
box, nasturtiums and for¬ 
get-me-nots. 
For boxes in the shade 
the following can be used: 
tuberous begonias, with 
both single and double 
dainty flowers and waxy 
leaves; begonia semper- 
florens; fuchsias; cobaea 
scandens; foliage gerani¬ 
ums, crotons, which offer a 
great variety in decorative foliage; funkia 
variegata, with equally decorative foliage; 
ferns in variety; palms; English ivy; 
wandering Jew; trailing euonymous; peri¬ 
winkle and creeping Jennie or hysemachia 
Nummularia. 
The foregoing are for summer planting; 
in winter, where the position is protected, 
the boxes may be filled with box, dwarf 
thuya, dwarf retinspora, Irish juniper, 
small plants of hemlock and white pine, 
English ivy, and trailing euonymous. 
The following are some suggestions for 
window box flower combinations, according 
to season and location of box: 
Spring: pink hyacinths, light blue pan¬ 
sies and white English daisies or bellis; 
these should be on a lower floor window 
where the delicate color scheme may be 
appreciated by passersby; blue hyacinths 
and pink bellis, trays of tulip can be set 
in the boxes and the varieties are number¬ 
less, although where one can afford it a 
remarkable display could be made with 
solid boxes of Clara Butt pink Darwin 
tulips with an edging of forced candytuft; 
or some of the early May 
flowering tulips in solid 
colors would give an 
amazingly beautiful effect. 
For summer: pink ger¬ 
aniums, petunias and En¬ 
glish ivy; pink and white 
geraniums with wandering 
Jew; mauve, pink and blue 
hydrangeas; for boxes or 
tubs where little sun can 
reach them, Boston fern 
and English ivy, a happy 
contrast in foliage between 
the two greens; petunias or 
begonias massed in boxes, 
suitable for a shady win¬ 
dow; the large flowering 
fringed petunias in brilliant 
colors are especially effec¬ 
tive, and in a green box 
against a cream colored 
wall I can see “balcony 
blue” or “balcony pink” or 
“rosy morn”, all delightful 
varieties of petunias; the 
semperflorens begonias 
grow only a foot high, form 
dense bushes from May till 
frost and range in color 
from white to the most fiery scarlet and 
some have deep red foliage. With the pe¬ 
tunias one may use vines for a trailer 
over the edge. Because of its hardy glossy 
leaves accuba make a good summer filler, 
although the plants should be kept washed 
clean with the hose. 
For fall: hardy chrysanthemums in 
variety or solid colors, especially the early 
flowering types. Then in winter the small 
evergreens, such as suggested in the general 
list above, will serve admirably until 
Spring comes again. 
If window boxes are given some architectural significance, by designing the plantmg to fit the 
particular window in which they are placed, the residt, as in these three examples, is eminently 
satisfying. Box, vines and small pyramidal conifers are used in a variety of groupings 
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