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will be a source of much delight and pleasure to 

 you who live within the house, and will be admired 

 by all they who pass by. 



Business houses abutting on the sidewalk will 

 find that window boxes not only will beautify the 

 exterior of their places of business, but will surely 

 direct attention to stores and offices and prove to 

 be a paying advertisement and a good investment. 



Another thing, these boxes may be made to do 

 double service during the winter, presenting a 

 cheerful touch of green to the otherwise barren 

 landscape, and while suitable evergreen plants 

 from the nursery for this purpose are somewhat 

 expensive, we have a suitable substitute for those 

 who do not feel like going to the expense of pur- 

 chasing the young plants. 



You may go out on a trip to the woods and 

 gather some nicely formed' branches or sprays of 

 pine, cedar, hemlock, and spruce, bring them home 

 and stick them in the soil in the boxes, making as 

 artistic an arrangement as possible of the several 

 varieties, and there they will stay fresh and green 

 almost all the winter, and, you might say, cost 

 nothing. 



If you happen to have a couple of cement vases 

 for the edge of the porch or steps, you may build 

 a globe or other suitable design from rather heavy 

 wire, put this in the top of vases and train Eng- 

 lish Ivy on the frame, and this too will be a pretty 



