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WINDOW GARDENING 



The sills, too, are made broad, and thus afford peculiar conveniences for their safe 

 position. Wealthy citizens who return from the country at close of the summer 

 find these glass gardens ready filled, and charmingly arrayed with ferns, ever- 

 greens and flowering plants, which will last throughout the entire winter. In the 

 spring time these give place to Roses, Fuchsias, Pelargoniums, and a variety of 

 other plants suitable for each season. They are exceedingly simple, and besides 

 affording a world of gratification to the inmates of the house they are a great 

 addition to the exterior ornaments of the building. They are not common in this 



Fig. 3. 



country, and it would be quite an object for some dealer in horticultural elegancies 

 here to make a specialty of them, for as soon as known they will be greatly in de- 

 mand. The construction is as follows The lower window sash, is omitted entirely, 

 and the glass case inserted in its place, is of sufficient height to reach to the upper 

 sash. The base should be of one stout slab of slate, resting upon the lower win- 

 dow sill, and extending outward from 1 foot to 2 feet, and the same distance in- 

 ward. If the window is large, 2 feet each ssde of the sash will not be too large. 

 An iron frame is then cast of just sufficient length and width to set upon the slab, 



