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WINDOW GARDENING. 



window serve for the bact. The operation of 

 arranging the plants is, of course, to be performed 

 from the room within by opening tlie window. 



" Fig. 4 is the same kind of case adapted to a 

 single window ; the ventilation, although shown 

 in front, may be better if placed in the ends. 



" Again, where double windows are used, and 

 more especially where the outer window projects 

 beyond the wall of the house, great accommoda- 

 tion is obtained for the keeping of plants. "When 

 these window gardens upon the last principle are 

 made to project for two or three feet beyond the 

 wall, as shown in section, fig. 5, the ends should be of glass also, and in them 

 ventilators should be placed. Windows facing the full sun should, 

 in summer, be provided with an awning, to shade the plants during 

 intense sunshine. This will prolong the season of flowering consid- 

 erably ; while a thicker covering substituted during winter will ex- 

 clude the cold in ordinary weather ; and a tea-urn, or similar vessel, 

 replenished with hot water, or an iron heater dropped into it in the 

 usual manner, will exclude frost of considerable intensity. Some- 

 times neat green gauze blinds are fastened to the top of the sloping 

 roof inside, and made to run on wires close to the glass, for the pur- 

 pose of shading ; and again, the bottom and shelves are often so con- 

 trived, by having wire basketwork round their edges, that the pots [ 

 are plunged in green moss, which, being kept constantly moist, sup- fjo-. 5. 



plies the plants with moisture, and counteracts the bad effects of a scorching 

 drying up sun. 



"The lady's plant-case, fig. 6, is a miniature adapt- 

 ation of the Wardian case, and is admirably calculated 

 to form an interesting object either in the drawing- 

 room or hall. The vase, as will be seen, is furnished 

 with a groove all round, into which fits a glass shade, 

 which covers the plants. It may be all in one piece, 

 or framed with elegant and light brass, copper, or even 

 silver sash-bar, and glazed with long, narrow, strips of /A-J' 

 glass, bent to the proper curvature. Indeed, it may be 

 made to represent a conservatory in miniature. 



"Large crystal bell glasses are now made for the 

 purpose of covering a whole vase of plants ; and we 

 question much but ere long every flower table or stand 

 will be fitted with a glass shade, both when cut flowers 

 are used, and for plants in pots 



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Fig. 6. 

 In both cases the duration of the flowers and 

 in a perfect state will be prolonged, and their beauty unimpaired. At all events 



