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bottles should bo filled with water, and have one or two well-grown spraya 

 of ivy in each, placed in wads of cotton to keep them upright, the leaves ar- 

 ranged in between and aromid the edge of the basket. The ivy will grow, 

 and can be trained to run up the cords, as well as to hang over the sides; 

 the only care required is to till up the bottles as th(j water evaporates, and 

 to keep the leaves free from dust. 



AVimlow Gardening. — What adds more to the cheerfulness of th« 

 homo duiing the lonely, dreary days of winter, than flowers ? All can hava 



FIG. 1. — DOTTBLE WINDOW WITH PLANT SHKLF. 



them, the poor as well as the rich, if a little care and forethought is use^ 

 in growing and arranging them. 



The preparatory work consists in transplanting and fairly starting 'i% 

 small pots, in August or September, the Madeira vine, creeping Cliarlie, 

 cypress vine, balloon vine, the common English, the German, or the Kcuil- 

 worth ivy, or morning glory, flowering bean, or sweet-scented pea, or, if you 

 are disposed to be more aristocratic, smilax, lophiospermum, or, if the win- 

 dow is large and the foliage ig not deemed too rank, the clematis or the 



