The Golden State: Where & How to Live, Secure, Visit, Enjoy and Thrive in California

Window Gardener

The proper soil is loam and well-rotted manure, with a little silver sand. Waterings of liquid manure are very beneficial as the plants are showing bloom.

The following will be found to be fine kinds: —

Pomp one.
Andromeda. Cream color. Nellie. Creamy pink. Miranda. Bright rose. Christiana. Canary yellow. Mrs. Dix. Blush.	Riquiqui. Violet plum. Lady Mayoress. White. Salamon. Rosy carmine. Canary Bird. Yellow. Miss Talford. White.

Large-Flowered Varieties
Alarm. Crimson. Little Harry. Golden amber. Cassy. Orange and buff. Hermine. Silver white. Pearl. Pearly white.	Prince Albert. Crimson red. King of Yellows. Yellow. Vesta. White. Annie Baiter. Canary yellow. Queen of England. Blush.

BEGONIA

The only two species of this ornamental stove plant that do well in the parlor, are B. incarnata, and fuchsioides. The former is an evergreen shrub, with thick, fleshy stems, and large, drooping clusters of pink flowers in winter. It shows to great advantage if well cared for, and is one of the best window plants. The latter is often called " coral drop," and resembling the former somewhat in habit, produces at all seasons, but chiefly in summer, its pretty, drooping, coral flowers.

Both species require the warmest possible situation, and plenty of light and sun. They are impatient of much water, but the plants should never be allowed to droop. Good drainage is indispensable. The whole family thrive in a compost of one half loam, one half leaf mould, with a slight portion of sand.