GARDENING IN WINDOW-BOXES 



In the late summer and early autumn the Aster is a flower that 

 can be recommended. It is now highly cultivated 

 and well worth consideration. For later autumn any ?°f ** "" 

 small variety of Chrysanthemum may be utilized. " "™° 



For ornamental pots and tubs.where a variety of flowers is desired, 

 the order of plants and procedure in filling are practi- 

 cally the same as for window-boxes. Outdoor flower p™S^T^g 

 vases are generally fairly cheap when bought direct 

 from a pottery, and often greatly improve a garden, especially where 

 there is much grass and few flower-beds. Only, as in the case of 

 window-boxes, the daily care in watering, removing dead leaves and 

 blossoms, etc., is all essential. 



Butter or lard tubs — to be bought for fourpence or sixpence 

 apiece — can also be utilized by those in search of 

 economical ornamentation for the garden, balcony, SlJ^i« ^^ 

 terrace, or flat roof. Painted green (the Middle 

 Brunswick Green advised for flower-boxes) and well drained by 

 means of holes drilled in the bottom, these tubs will last several 

 seasons and always look picturesque. Where variety is not sought 

 after and a more permanent filling desired, tubs or vases may have 

 an effective arrangement of taU Ferns, with an undergrowth of 

 Stonecrop, Creeping Jenny, Double Arabis, Saxifrage or Ground Ivy. 



In large pots and tubs (barrels bought at a small cost at the 

 grocer's or wine merchant's may be sawn in half and 

 treated like the lard tubs) any of the small compact ^^S? f°^ 

 shrubs may be grown, while in our southern counties 

 and in sheltered positions Myrtles, Tree Fuchsias, Hardy Azaleas 

 and Brooms will flourish with excellent decorative effect. 



Almost every sort of bulb for spring flowering can be grown 

 indoors in bowls, and no more charming decoration 

 for a room can be imagined. Any sort of esirthenware S""'f "* 

 bowl is suitable — green, brown, or yellow — the flowers °^ ^ 

 grown in them being selected with a view to forming an artistic 

 whole. Snowdrops, ScUlas, Crocuses, Narcissi, Daffodils, Hyacinths, 

 Tulips, etc., will form a succession of bloom which for table decora- 

 tion alone would be worth considering. 



The method of growing is an extremely simple one. The bulbs 

 should be selected in early autiunn, and may be grown 

 in pebbles, sheU gravel, or damp moss, but the most ^s'*?"' of 

 popular and therefore, probably, the most successful ^'""S 

 medium is cocoanut fibre. This fibre, sold at the florist's for the 



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