WINDOW GARDENING. 



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inch all around, then plant in it some climbing or drooping vine, saj' a Morning 

 Glory. Suspend the turnip with cords, and in a little time the vines will grow 

 upward over the cords, while the turnip will sprout below and send forth leaves 

 gracefully turning and curving upward . 



The Sweet Potato would hardly be recognized by many who know it only to 

 eat it, if they could see how pretty a parlor ornament it might be easily made 

 Fig. 34 is a- good illustration of one 

 in a vase placed upon a bracket 

 fastened to the side of a room. 



Take a large sized Sweet Potato 

 and drop it to the bottom of a vase 

 or the bowl of a hanging basket. 

 Cover the Potato with water nearly 

 to its top, leaving perhaps a half inch 

 uncovered, and always keeping it 

 about at this point. It will soon put 

 forth roots, and the top will shoot 

 out a vine which will grow after a 

 while with great rapidity . A sunny 

 position suits it best, — and the ten- 

 drils will soon clasp the arms of the 

 basket, or droop in long curls over 

 the edge of the vase. Many visitors 

 who have seen such a vine in the 

 window of their friend, have inquired 

 with admiration its name, thinking 

 it must be some foreign plant. Had 

 it possessed only some curious bo- 

 tanical or fanciful name, its praises 

 would never cease being repeated, 

 but the visitors are a little cliagrined 

 to And that their enthusiasm has been 

 vented upon nothing but a Sweet 

 Potato Vine. 



Arrangement and Choice of Flowers 

 for Wreaths, Bouquets and Vases, . 



The art of arranging flowers grace- 



FiR .14 Sweet Potato Vine in vase. 



fully and well, is not so easily taught as their culture, for it requires an artistic 

 eye to group them tastefully, yet fortunately they are so intrinsically beautiful 

 that they can hardly be spoiled, though the best effect is not always attained. 



The Germans, French, and even the Russian women are said to surpass the 

 English and Americans in their various methods of weaving flowers into house 

 decorations, and they seem born with a love of plants and flowers. 



