23 The New Practical Window Gardener, 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE WINDOW GREENHOUSE. 



HE Miniature Window Greenhouse, whicli I 

 will now consider, is scarcely fitted for the 

 centre of large towns, but answers well in 

 surhurban districts and country towns. The window 

 greenhouse is a thing of far greater pretensions than 

 the window box. It is an ambitious step towards its 

 great progenitor, the Conservatory, and an object which 

 all lovers of flowers, who take a pride in their window 

 boxes, must long to possess. And why should they not 

 possess it ? It is but the question of a few shillings if 

 they have the ingenuity to make one themselves, or 

 can get a carpenter friend to construct it for them. 



The window greenhouse is the climax of window 

 gardening, the " beau ideal " of window gardeners, 

 enabling them to grow a greater variety of plants, and 

 to get up good specimens for exhibition. But apart 

 from that it is a great ornament to a room. What 

 a world of interest is centred around it. Visitors are 

 loud in their admiration of it ; every body compliments 

 you on your happy invention and the beauty of your 

 flowers. To children it is a treat of surpassing interest. 



