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WINDOW GARDENING. 



40, and with wooden frames same as lor windows. All that it needs is to fit the 

 glasses into the frames and seal the sides up tightly with putty. 



The frame, as it sets into the lower wooden box, should also be fastened well 

 with putty, to make it tight ; and on the outside you may fasten a very pretty 

 little moulding, which will cover the top of the wood, 

 and set snugly up to the glass. You will of course 

 take care to have a little door cut in the back glass, 

 say about six inches by eight or ten, opening or 

 sliding, whenever necessary to introduce water, or 

 remove insects and dead leaves. 



In Fig. 42, the upper pane maybe made movable. 

 Next you will need a tray to go inside the wooden 

 frame work. This should be of nearly the same size 

 as the box, but smaller so as to fit inside. Tliis 

 tray should be constructed of zinc, and may be made 

 with a double bottom of an inch in height, a small 



1""^ *'-^t^i.^'"H^'^ hole being cut in the upper one, for the purpose of 



Fig. 57.— Arborette. Carrying oft' any surplus water. The filling and 



planting have already been described. Place some broken charcoal, or fine 

 brick or gravel, in the bottom of the upper pan, and then your compost over 

 this. If your wood is well moulded, and sides ornamented, the case will be a 

 very handsome ornament. Cases such as we describe, are now made and sold 

 at prices of from ^20 to ^30, by all our large floral warehouses. 



Should you wish to construct a little rockery in the 

 fernery, select pieces of stone, sharp pointed, or with 

 rough jagged sides. You will often find them in some 

 moist spot in the woods, already half covered with 

 moss ; then build them up one above the other until 

 you have made the form of an arch. Start the stones 

 from the very bottom of the tray, mix the soil well 

 with them wherever possible, into all the interstices, 

 and if it is necessary to get cement to make them 

 «^ firm, do so. Then set set your ferns in all the rugged 

 interstices of the stones, wherever you have placed 

 the earth, and they will soon cover it with their leaves, 

 and their roots will reach into all the crevices. 

 Fig. .58.— Aiijoiette. Design No. 40, is about the size we have described, 



constructed in a more than a usually ornamental style. It is very suitable for 

 all kinds of ferns, and Lycopodium, Small Orchids, small species of the Draca- 

 ena, Croton pictum, Cr variegntmn, Aphelandra Leopoldi, Gymmostachys, Ver- 

 shaffeltii, Eranthcmwn, ifineum, Passiflora trifasciata, Alocassia, Caladium, and 

 Fittonia argeniea. 



Fig. 41 shows one of the simplest of all fern decorations in the form of a neat 



