ART IN THE PLANT WORLD 
We are not all artists or interior decorators, 
and yet we can all make use of the artistic pos- 
sibilities present and inherent in our plant 
friends. We can cultivate and further the use 
of plants and flowers in and about our homes. 
Europe is far ahead of us in this respect. In 
England, a city house may be ever so frowsy 
and run-down but it will be sure to have its 
well-kept window boxes. The suburban homes 
of labourers and other lowly folk are often veri- 
table bowers of loveliness) The German must 
have a garden in which to drink his beer. If 
there is none handy, he builds one, and cool and 
delightful he makes it. In many European 
cities, all the houses come out to the building 
line and even arch the sidewalks. Nota bit of 
greensward is in sight. Yet shrubs, flowers and 
vines spring from every sill and balcony and 
so make the streets to blossom as the Rose. 
American cities are too inclined to be barren 
wastes of brick and stone, with but scant pro- 
vision for plant beauty. Even the rich, who 
have their elaborate and beautiful country 
gardens, seem to forget the plants and flowers 
when they come to the city. The self-tending 
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