Window gardening : devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for indoor use and parlor decoration . l varie-ties, and they certainly formmost beautiful objects ondull December days. The variegated form ofthe common Roast-beef plant—Iris foetidissima—may beseen occasionally used withgood effect. This is a truehardy native which willdeserve culture. It forms avery pretty plant for roomdecoration, requires nonebut the most ordinary at-tention, and is easily ob-tained. The Acanthuses, too,and particularly A. lusitani-cus used so effectively out ofdoors, are also grown-abun-
Window gardening : devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for indoor use and parlor decoration . l varie-ties, and they certainly formmost beautiful objects ondull December days. The variegated form ofthe common Roast-beef plant—Iris foetidissima—may beseen occasionally used withgood effect. This is a truehardy native which willdeserve culture. It forms avery pretty plant for roomdecoration, requires nonebut the most ordinary at-tention, and is easily ob-tained. The Acanthuses, too,and particularly A. lusitani-cus used so effectively out ofdoors, are also grown-abun-dantly in rooms, where theydo very well. Everything Fig. 7.—Yucca aioefoiia. proved to do well without the protection of a case is a gain to the very largeclass, who, from choice or necessity, like to grow plants in rooms. A few years since a valuable communication on this subject of room decora-tion was given by a French gardener, Antonine Chantin, of Rue de Chatillon,Paris, to the Floral World of London. Mentioning the most popular plantsused in the window embellishments of the French Capital, as their culture. 254 WIND0 W GARDENING. seems to be better understood in that city than any other, we take the liberty ofquoting a few of his statements: Palms. These play an important part in the embellishment of apartments in Paris. Corypha Australis. This plant, although but little known, is destined in a short time to occupy a foremost place in the decoration of apartments, where it makes itself conspicuous by its peculiar beauty, and the number of its leaves; it is, I believe, the most rustic in appearance of all the palms. Cocos coronata and flexuosa are very elegant, and produce a charming humilis and excelsa, are two very fine hardy palms; Lataniaborbonica is certainly the most recherche plant of the family, and is valued asmuch for the beautiful green of its leaves as for its elegant appearance. Phoenix dactylifera, leonensisand redinata are also verymu
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