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CHAPTER XIII. 

 THE DOUBLE WINDOW. 



Advantages of a Double Window. Their Use in the North. The 

 Manner of decorating them. Glass Stands. Plants proper for 

 the Double Window. Grevillea, Kennedia, Blue Lobelia, Ges- 

 neria, Gloxinias, Achimenes, Brunfelsias, Torrenia Asiatica, 

 Ixora, Echmea, Begonias. Sparmannia. Retractility of its 

 Stamens. 



Advantages of a Double "Window. 



AFTER having done our gardening in the par- 

 lor, wishing for a little more room in which 

 to pursue it still further, we came out of doors. 

 Here also our work is completed. Let us then 

 go in again. 



In all countries where Winter brings in his 

 train a long succession of vigorous colds, in 

 order to guard the better against these, the in- 

 habitants, instead of having in their windows but 

 a single sash, use the wise precaution of having 

 two the outer one even with the outside of the 



