6 THE SCHOOL GARDEN BOOK 



Such boxes are particularly useful for starting seedlings, as 

 well as for holding flower-pots in which bulbs or other plants 

 are growing. They have the great advantage that they can be 

 turned end for end at frequent intervals and thus cause the 

 leaves and blossoms of the plants growing in them to take 

 on a symmetrical appearance. There is also an advantage 

 in the fact that in very cold weather such boxes can easily be 

 removed from the window. 



In general, such window-boxes will be in the nature of 

 collective gardens, representing the interest of the whole 

 school. As a rule the only individual gardens practicable 

 in-doors will be those grown either in special small boxes or 

 in flower-pots. Such individual gardens are practicable in 

 the case of a number of plants which may be grown from 

 seed, as well as in the case of the spring flowering bulbs and 

 various plants which are grown from cuttings. The paper 

 flower-pots, which may be obtained from any florist or seeds- 

 man, are in many respects more desirable than the ordinary 

 pottery ones. They have special advantages in their cheap- 

 ness, in the ease with which they may be stored away in 

 little space, in the small amount of room they take up when 

 placed side by side in a window-box or on a plant-shelf, and 

 especially in the fact that evaporation does not take place 

 from the sides of the pots as it does in the case of the ordi- 

 nary flower-pots. 



These paper pots are not easily broken, so they can be 

 carried safely from the school to the home by little children, 

 and they are so inexpensive that any school can afford to 

 provide them for the use of the pupils. The smaller sizes 

 cost but twenty-five cents per hundred. 



