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Title: Window gardening : devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for in door use and parlor decoration
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: House plants Window gardening
Publisher: New York : Ladies' Floral Cabinet Co.
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ed innative vines. Its foliage is its most valuable and interesting characteristic ; dur-ing the summer time it is of a beautiful green, heightened in effect very materi-ally by the festoons which swing off from the main stem, and add grace of habitto beauty of color. In the autumn the foliage, at the first advent of frost, ischanged into the most brilliant of crimson colors, as if the vine were in a blazeof glory. It is best admired when seen in contrast with some other green vineclose at hand, and hence, it is often twined with the Wisteria. The MorningGlory, (^Convolvulus major,) with its brilliant, purple, crimson, or white flowers,is the easiest of all to raise from the seed, and always makes a fine display. The Tropceolum percgrinum, (Canary Bird Flower,) is used for veranda pur- 132 WINDOW GARDENING poses as well as for the garden or for bedding; flowers yellow; very ornamentalgrowth about 10 feet. It would be best to twine a different vine around each pillar or column *nrt •
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Pig. 21.—Trumpet Honeysuckle—Zionicera sempervircnt. some cases, where there will be a contrast of foliage and flowers, two differentvines may be twined around the same column ; but it is best to keep the ann-uals WIND 0 W CfARDENING. ) 3 3 by themselves and the permanent varieties by themselves The Clematis, Jas-mine, or Climbing Roses may be added by those who have the taste. Indeed,we would recommend for a surety at least one Prairie Rose, either the Gem ofthe Prairies or the Queen of the Prairies, both of which are crimson in color,the former more durable and flagrant than the latter, but not as rapid a climber House-top Gardening. What a novelty! yet how reasonable the suggestion. In the German tale ofthe Old Mamselle, we read of its pleasures, and it is stated that in Swedenhouse-top gardens are not an uncommon sight, both in the country and in thevillages. The roofs of some of the poorest cottages are covered with herbs,which, afford a pasture for goats. In Norway they even

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