The New Practical Window Gardener. 25 



Day by day you have marked the progress they have 

 made towards the state of perfection you wish them to 

 reach. At last you have reared them into fair exhibition 

 specimens, and, on the morning of the great day you 

 stage them on the exhibition table amongst your 

 neighbours' plants with nervous feelings of anxiety. 

 But luck is on your side, the prize tickets decorate 

 your favorites, and they stand proudly amongst the 

 others, reflecting credit on your skill as a plantsman 

 and making your heart bound with pleasure when you 

 see them taking the place you had long hoped they 

 would. You feel an honest pride in pointing out to 

 your friends and acquaintances the prize winners of 

 the day. Ah ! then you think there is nothing so 

 interesting as your little greenhouse, and you work at 

 it again with renewed interest, determined to keep up 

 the name you have won, dreaming dreams of future 

 success in the prize list, if all goes well, till the next 

 flower show. 



The fact is every one in a country town or suburban 

 district, with a love for flowef s, should get a miniature 

 "window greenhouse. If you once have one, and be 

 able to grow your plants well it will become a necessity 

 of youj life and you will be surprised at the interest 

 you take in every plant within it. 



I will now try to direct you as simply as I can how 

 to construct one for yourself. You must first get a 

 blacksmith to fix you up a pair of iron brackets below 

 your window. They should project out two feet at 

 least ; you must get them securely fixed, as the greater 

 part of the weight of your little greenhouse will lie on 



