The Garden Under Glass

HOUSING AND ARRANGING PLANTS 253 The Possibilities of the Plan Imagine the possibilities of such a plan, or conjure up, if you can, the glorious spectacle of a house of bulbs in spring, of achimenes and gloxinias in summer, of Chrysanthemums or salvias in autumn, and of Lorraine begonias or calanthes in winter. Whoever has enjoyed lingering in a house devoted to heliotropes or to freesias will understand my enthusiasm. The subjects suitable for such a plan seem to swarm upon us. Jotting them down as they occur, we have roses, liliums, primulas, coleuses (the blue-flowering and the ornamental-leaved), begonias, amaryllises, cypripediums, schizanthuses, calceolarias, show pelargoniums, fuchsias, gesneras, azaleas, streptocarpi, etc. MoDIFYING THE PLAN More subjects, in faet, are available than could possibly be used in such a way during a year; but the amateur gardener, thirsting for fresh subjects, could easily leave out for a year such subjects as are grown from seed. Thus, instead of schizanthuses, he might have cinerarias, and vice versa ; and if something were preferred to the scarlet salvia it would be quite easy to grow simply a couple of plants to preserve the stock. The plan would, of course, be worked according to the wish or whim of the owner, and no slavish adherence to one dass of plants need be tolerated. For instance, with double and single geraniums there might also be ivy geraniums as standards or in baskets, and interspersed among the flowers the scented-leaved pelargoniums could be employed with very artistic effeet.