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Jiily, 
AND GREENHOUSE. 
THE WINDOW GARDEN FOE JTJIiT. 
During the summer months we do not 
mean to keep plants in our windows; it is 
better for our rooms, and the plants too, 
that the latter be outside in some suitable 
plaee. Those who have greenhouses may 
make an effort at display even iu summer, 
and this is usually done by the use of Ferns, 
Crotons, Dracjenas, Palms, colored-leaved 
Caladiums and other plants that dislike full 
sunshine or are permanently planted out iu 
the greenhouse. 
In the out-door summer treatment of win¬ 
dow or greenhouse plants the care aud cul¬ 
tivation are about the same,—we aim to have 
healthy, vigorous, stocky plants, well rooted 
and matured enough to assure an abundance 
of flowers in winter or spring. 
The usual routine of watering, cleaning, 
shortening, staking, tying, preventing over 
crowding, and the lilce, requires vigilant at¬ 
tention. 
In order to change matters a little, I will 
tell you how my own stock is “fixed" for 
the summer; did I know how better to treat 
it, I would do so: 
CALLAS 
Were shaken out of their pots aud planted 
singly, some in open, sunny, and others iu 
somewhat shadj' groimd. I won’t water 
them in summer. In August or September 
I’ll lift and repot them. 
CARXATIOXS 
Are planted out and mulched. What flower- 
spikes they bear are pinched out, but 1 don’t 
pinch Hinzy’s IMiite after June. 
LADY ’VVASHIXGTON GERAXICMS 
That have done blooming are turned out of 
their pots, and planted in a half sliadj-place. 
1 give them no water. The young growth 
they make a little later makes capital cut¬ 
tings which make fine bloommg plants for 
next spring. If I shall want them I’ll ,-lift 
and repot some of the old plants in fall. 
ZOXAL GEIGAXIUMS 
Are in four-inch pots and plunged in fi-aine; 
they were “struck’’ in April. I shall soon 
shift them into five or six-inch pots, whicii 
are large enough for winter use. Keep the 
plants quiet, don’t encourage growth, hut 
instead, ripe,-stocky wood;_/lon’t'over-water 
nor feed with stimulants. Doubles ai-e bet¬ 
ter than singles as cut flowers. 
VIOI.ET.S 
Are young stock planted out in i-ows in Ix-ds 
and mulched. 1 give them water occasion¬ 
ally and keep the runnei-s cut away. 
nOL’VAItlJlAS, 
Old and young, are planted out and midehed; 
they were cut well back befoi-e they were 
set out, but now are growing freely and cut 
in to keep them bushy. 'J'hey bloom we.ll 
in summer if permitted, but I want the.m for 
winter woi-k, lienee won’t let them have un¬ 
restricted freedom before Septembe)-. 
EA.STEK MI.IES • 
Are growing in pots, jilunged out-of-doors 
and unheeded except to keep them. clean 
from weeds. In the ease of JAHnm lonijillo- 
rurn particularly, I get finer results from 
bulbs grown year after year in pots and to))- 
dressed but not repotted every year, than I 
in the ordinary 
do from good bulbs ^ 
way out-of-doors anc po j.,ej,iotkoi>bs 
STKV.IAS, I’AKIS DAisiE t ' When 
Are in pots plunged on^o£M ■ 
planted out they grow too ^ 
[hem freely and give them plenty of ^^atc 
and plenty of 
The old plants were 
cut hard back, and 
when theviiacl started a little were turned 
oTcI oix 
away, aud the plants repotted into as sm.i 
pots as we could get the roots into. I hey 
are growing nicely and plunged out-of-doors 
iu a sunny place. Plants from cuttings pu 
in two mouths ago are well rooted, in small 
pots, and plunged in a frame. 
CIIIN'ESIC IMIIJIUOSES. 
Some are iu two-and-a-half, three, and 
four-inch pots, in a cool frame and shaded 
from strong sunshine. Kepot as soon as 
the roots show a tendency to become root- 
bound. Seeds sown now should yield blooms 
for next winter or spring. 
NASTUKTIUJIS 
Are now acting as Peas in covering brush. 
About the end of this month I shall strike 
some for flowering in winter. The varieties 
of TropKohim LolMannm are best. Feed 
them liberally if,.vou desire to got large, fine 
flowers. 
BEGONIAS. 
Tuberous-rooted kinds arc planted out in 
a slightly shaded spot, and some with Glox¬ 
inias in a frame; the Rex section are in the 
greeuliouse, also plunged out-of-doors in the 
shade; the big-leaved ones like B. heracli- 
folia are planted out in a shady plaee but 
not under trees; and the many flne-llower- 
ing, tall-growing kinds like B. fticlmoides 
are plunged in an open bed. 
A.UAKVELISES 
That had done blooming are plunged in a 
cold frame and have a screen of laths laid 
over them. 
ClilNL’.US. 
Of the Caribbean one I have a good many 
bulbs aud planted tliem out in a cold-frame; 
they are now in bloom and very pretty. 
FUCIl.SIAS 
Are treated almost in the same way as we 
do Lady lyasbington Geraniums. My best 
blooms now are on .March-struck plants. If 
you want a big flower get Phenomenal. 
Ol.OXINIA.S 
-Are iilanted out in fi'ames, growing freely 
and beginning to Ijlos.som. Scedling.s raised 
last March will bloom in August and .Sep¬ 
tember; if I bad had i-oom to grow tliem 
along imcliecked 1 could havi; some of tliem 
in bloom now. I have liail old plants in 
bloom in jiots for .some months past. Shade 
them, water them .sparingly.. don't wet 
theii leaves, else you may induce “rust.” 
UM.SES. 
Young stock are planted out. In this way 
I get a far better growth in thmn tluiii I can 
Iiy kee),iug tliem in pots, ami they are le.ss 
subjected to mildew. In early fall 1 shall 
hit and pot them aud get them well rooted 
m their jiots before, winter sets iu. 
GMKVSaN’I'IIK.MK.'Ms 
Are growing fast. Dm 
11 piiieli them much 
»ore e se you may make them late. Glv,. 
h<un lots ol water and ll„uid manure, stake 
them firmly and destroy aphides. Will, a 
sharp spa. e cut aronnd the roots of tlmse 
you intend to lift and pot h. the fall 
in 'winte-r 
it grows 
MAHEBNIA ODOBATA 
Has sweet little yellow flowers 
niicl spring. When planted. out 
beautifully, but it is hard to. lift, therefore, 
I advise you to grow it along in pots. 
BROWALLIA JAMESONI 
Has become very popular since a year or 
or two. Planted out or grown in pots it is 
equally serviceable. It bears immense 
buuohes of orange flowers in late winter 
and spring. 
LEMON VERBENAS 
Belong to that class of plants, as Fuchsias, 
Crape Myrtles, and the like, can be wintered 
safely in the cellar, therefore I prefer to 
plant it out in summer for summer use only. 
CALCEOLARIAS AND CINERARIAS. 
I shall sow some of these now, also an¬ 
other sowing i u August and one in September. 
They need a cool, shady place to grow- in, 
and should never know what thirst means. 
A cold-frame on the north side of a building 
is a good place for them. Slugs are fond of 
them, green fly infests them, and I have 
been so much anuoyed by crickets eating 
them that I have had to raise the little frame 
containing them off the ground as if on a 
table, or use mosquito-wire-netting as a cov¬ 
ering to the plants. 
STOCKS. 
Sow some of the biennial sorts as Inter¬ 
mediate, Brompton, East Lothian or Em¬ 
peror, and grow them along in pots. They 
will yield you next spring, for out-door or 
in-door use, a large amount of flowers. A 
well-wrapped cold-frame is all the winter 
quarters that they need. 
SWEET ALYSSUM. 
I would advise you to get some jilants of 
the strong-growing, double-flowering sort, 
aud grow it along vigorousi}’^ in pots and in an 
open situation, so that you shall have strong 
plants for work. Then give it a place near 
the light aud lots to drink and jmu will have 
blossoms as long as the snow lasts. 
LIBONIAS 
Are copious winter-bloomers. Mine are 
planted out. I shall lift and repot them 
next .September. 
CYCL.VMENS. 
Old plants were turned out of their pots 
and planted vci’j^ closely iu a cold-frame, 
burying the corners about an inch or there¬ 
about. I don’t give them any water. As 
soon as they start into fresh growth I 
.shall lift, repot, and again return them to 
the frame, but plunged. The seedlings I 
raised last spring I have potted off singly 
and am growing them on unchecked. 
AVji. Falconer. 
FERNS FOR A HALL, 
Nothing is prettier iu a front hall than 
liraekets of living plants; and nothing else 
will give so distinctive an air of friendliness 
and weleoine. 'rhe. plants may be grown iu 
pots, set in handsome pot covers, and suir- 
ported by elegant bron/.e brackets; or, if 
this seems too exiiensive, simple wooden 
liraelujljs, carved or stained, and corner 
shelves are nice enough for anyone. If 
plants of a droo|)lng habit are used they will 
soon hide. tlic pot, so the costly pot covers 
are not essentials. But the heart of the 
wliole affair la in the plants chosen. They 
must be plants with persistent foliage, and 
wlilch thrive well in a cool aud somewhat 
dark room. Then success will conic. ■ 
