Window gardening : devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for indoor use and parlor decoration . eat dancingsaloon, and through whichthe guests passed to themagnificent ball each pillar in thissaloon was placed a palmwith high and arching leaveslike those of the Sieforthiaelegans, and others withlarger leaves and pendulousleaflets. These meeting,or almost meeting across,produced a very gracefuland imposing effect, whileround them were arrangedother plants, distinguishedeither by beauty of leaf orFi„ flower, and the groups at each pillar conne
Window gardening : devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for indoor use and parlor decoration . eat dancingsaloon, and through whichthe guests passed to themagnificent ball each pillar in thissaloon was placed a palmwith high and arching leaveslike those of the Sieforthiaelegans, and others withlarger leaves and pendulousleaflets. These meeting,or almost meeting across,produced a very gracefuland imposing effect, whileround them were arrangedother plants, distinguishedeither by beauty of leaf orFi„ flower, and the groups at each pillar connected by single rows of dwarf plants, closely placed however, andwell mossed in, as in the case of the more important groups. The very close placing of the plants is a peculiar part of the can not notice any dividing marks or gaps. Yet there is no awkward crowding. These arrangements were infinitely varied at the great balls, both public andprivate; rocks, water grottoes, and similar decorations, were occasionally intro-duced, both indoors and in the open air, and in the gardens behind private WINDOW GARDENING. 253 The Tuilleries gardens at the time of the great fetes, were largely decorated inthis Why—each of the numerous lamp-posts having a bed of flowers around it,and the whole scene being turned into a kind of conservatory in a few number of flowers required to do this was something enormous. The extent to which the floral embellishments of the Hotel de Ville werecarried, may be judged from the great number of plants grown at Passy for thatpurpose,—the New Zealand Flax, which is so very useful for indoor or outdoordecoration, being grown to the extent of upwards of 10,000 plants and Palms,and all plants with fine leaves in great quantity. One plant, cultivated ingreat abundance aroundParis for winter blooming, iswell worthy of increased at-tention, Epiphyllum trun-catum. There are several varie-ties, and they certainly formmost beautif
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