WINDOW GARDENING. 



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dow Gardening, which bear well a hot summer. Of course, we need shady 

 places for most of them. On the high mountains of the Alps, where in summer 

 the temperature is much lowered at night, the plants like full light to spread 

 forth the brilliancy of their colors. To protect now, by cultivating Alpine 

 plants of durability, the same against high temperature during our long and 

 hot summer, we recommend the following arrangement and treatment: 



Have a flat box made about eight inches high, and wide enough as to be easily 

 placed into the window casing. Cover the box, which is best made of zinc, at 

 the bottom with sand about an inch in depth, then arrange the pots in it accord- 

 ing to their size. Give to plants of a tall growth the centre, and surround them 

 by the smaller ones. Then rill up the spaces between each pot with a compost 



