56 WINDOW GARDENING. 



former are soft baked and are more porous ; in these, the 

 plants thrive better. 



Discard all glazed, china, glass, or fancy painted pots ; 

 they are not porous, and plants seldom thrive in them. 

 There is nothing neater than the common earthen pot, if 

 kept clean. If, however, something more ornamental is 

 desired, choose some of the fancy pots, and some are very 

 pretty and artistic in design, and let them be large 

 enough to set the common pot inside. 



But there is a very pretty way of fitting up a window 

 which is but little practised ; it is, in fact, making the win- 

 dow a flower garden. Build from your window into the 

 room a rounding wooden shelf, say, if the window is 

 large, three feet in diameter from window to outer edge, 

 but at any rate proportioned to the size of the window. 



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On this, place a large box, wood, or earthen ware unglazed, 

 made to conform to the shelf, and in this put your plants, 

 the taller at the back, the smaller in front, and on each 

 side a climber to run over the top of the window, on a neat 

 wire trellis or on strings. 



It is desirable to have holes in the bottom of the box to 

 allow superflous water to escape, and to permit this, the 

 shelf should be covered with zinc, which is preferable to 



