There are but few plants better adapted for the window garden or living-room than the finer colored varieties of the coleus. The larger leaved and more highly colored forms seem more at home in the house than those that do best out of doors. The heat which is so injurious to many house plants is just what the coleus enjoys. We have never seen finer specimens in the greenhouse or on exhibition, than we lately saw in a farm house window, with a southern exposure. The temperature of the room was always high ; never below 6o° at night, the heat being furnished by an ordinary coal stove. The plants were started in September last from cuttings, which root freely in water. When well rooted they were transferred to tin cans, fruit size, in which we saw them growing. When six inches high the ends were nipped, and they branched at every leaf. These branches in due time were nipped, and the plants are now regular in outline, completely clothed with the most gorgeous foliage, and without exception, the handsomest window plants we have ever seen growing. - C. L. A.