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veritable garden bower, wbile your boxes blaze like a 

 jewelled coronet. Creeping plants can be trained all 

 round tbe window by having small twine led round 

 for them to cling to. A few small nails in the crevices 

 of the stones and the twine twisted round them will do 

 this. Your boxes will require regular attention with 

 water in the summer time, but you should not water 

 your box overhead as watering thus spoils the bloom. 

 When the plants are dirty you will have to sponge the 

 dust off leaf by leaf. Take care to have all dead leaves 

 and blooms cleaned away and nothing left to cause any 

 unsightJiness. Thin and prune to keep the plants from 

 overcrowding too much. What beautiful specimens of 

 window boxes one sees in unexpected places sometimes. 

 I happened on several occasions to be in a small manu- 

 facturing town some time ago, and nothing gave me so 

 much pleasure as a box of flowers in one of the windows 

 of a large factory ; it was so tastefully arranged and so 

 gay that I could not but admire it. As far as I recollect 

 now it was a green painted box filled with Scarlet and 

 White Geraniums and Yellow Calceolarias mixed, bor- 

 dered with Musk plant and Lobelias. What gave the 

 crowning effect, however, was an arch thrown over from 

 end to end of the box and a Canary Creeper wreathed 

 round it. I used to think it like some gigantic golden 

 crown sparkling with gems. Whoever arranged it had 

 good taste. 



Now, supposing you have got your window box in- 

 beautiful array, and the graceful creepers twining 

 bowerlike around the window, what would .be prettier 

 than a neat wire basket hanging from the centre, with 



