10 GARDENING INDOORS AND UNDER GLASS 
middle to allow all the water to drain out. The 
false bottom will take care of any ordinary surplus 
of water, which can be drained off into a watering 
can or pitcher by taking out the cork. The de- 
tails of construction of such a box are shown in 
figure 1. It will be best to have the box so placed 
Fig. 1—Box for plants. AC—false zinc bottom; 
AB, CB—slanting bottom to drain water out at 
hole B. 
upon its supporting brackets that it can be changed 
occasionally end for end, thus keeping the plants 
growing evenly, and not permitting the blooms con- 
tinually to turn their backs to the inside of the 
room. 
With the above simple provisions one may take 
advantage of all the light to be had in an ordinary 
window. Occasionally a better place may be found 
ready to hand, such as the bay-window illustrated 
facing page 8 or such as that described in the 
preceding chapter, or those mentioned in the first 
chapter of Part II (page 146). The effort de- 
manded will always be repaid many times by greater 
