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. WINDOW GARDENING. 



on the ground in some low, moist place, near a swamp. Pots of lava, or non 

 porous material, without a hole at the bottom for drainage, must be used only 

 for holding other and more porous pots inside, the insterstices being filled with 

 moist moss. Very pretty wire baskets are found at some of our stores ; and 

 these, being open, must be filled with moss first, and then a little soil in the cen- 

 tre, and the plants added afterwards. 



Fig. 3. 



Large sea shells, (nautilus or concli,) will hold soil enough to support crnilers, 

 and are usually very tasteful window ornaments. One of the prettiest baskets 

 ever seen was made from a singe sea shell, quite large. Holes were bored 

 through the edge to fasten cords to hang it by ; the interior of the shell was 



