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pasnon vine." Nearlr all of these, if thus started, •will grow finely and festoon 

 jour windows in a few weeka; some of them have fine blossoms, which will 

 add to the beauty of their foliage. Next, for the plants to make a display in 

 your windows. What these shall be, and how they shall be arranged, de- 

 pends very much upon the size, shape and character of your windows. If 

 you have a bay or oriel window, either large or small, you can make it the 

 most attractive feature of your room at a very small expense. First place 

 your pots with climb-vines at the sides on low brackets, and the vines to 

 make a beautiful frame for your windows. If the window is a deep bay, 

 other and more delicate vines may be placed between the side windows and 

 the main one — such as smilax, the Keuilworth ivy, or the cypress vine — aud 

 trained over the ceiling of the bay. At the base of the windows have a 

 shelf six or eight inches wide (eight is best), supported, by tho ordinary 



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metal brackets, and in front tack the expanding framework (such as \s eliown 

 in Fig. 1), which is now to bo found for sale by the yard very cheap at all 

 the flower stores— the black vtlnut is the prettiest, though the holly wood 

 is very neat; stretch it to ita fiill extent before tacking it on. Then selecting 

 your hardiest and most froely-blooming plants — geraniums, pelargoniums, 

 rose geraniums, all from slips potted in July or August, periwinkles, 

 fuchsias, heliotropes, bouvardias, cuphias, and newly-potted slips of ver- 

 bena, with such other beautiful small plants as you may find desirable — 

 place 4Kf^ po* ^ OD® about three sizes lai^er, which is partially filled with 

 fine eartn, and the space between loosely packed with moss. Set these on 

 your shelf, arranging them with reference to complementary colors; put in 

 the center where the main partition between the two divisions of the central 

 window is, a good and shapely ardisia, which, if it has been plunged during 



