GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
WINDOW BOXES 
If you are a little city child, and can have only 
a flower box in a window or along a porch-rail, 
cheer up! There is still a chance for you to have 
posies all the long hot days. After, having your 
box filled with good, rich soil on top of a layer of 
broken crockery or stones,—for drainage, you know, 
—you ean plant running nasturtiums along the 
edge for a hanging vine. Inside of that plant a 
row of the blue lobelia, or set in a few pansies al- 
ready in bloom. Then you would have room for 
still another row of taller plants,—say pink and 
white geraniums, with a fern or two. Another 
pretty box could be made by putting Wandering 
Jew or ‘‘inch plant’’ along the edge for the droop- 
ing vine, then blue ageratum for your edging, with 
next a row of lovely pink begonias. <As it takes a 
number of weeks for any seeds to grow and come 
to flower, you might better save your candy pennies 
and buy a few blooming plants from the spring 
pedlar. They will gladden your heart while wait- 
ing. 
All kinds of green add to these little boxes, and 
all the white flowers soften and help to blend the 
bright colors. China asters, in white, pink, and 
lavender, are lovely in a window box, and if started 
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