190 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS May, 1909 
are no longer confined to 
windows. In some houses 
their use is most elaborate, 
and they are found beside 
the steps or strung in won- 
derful rows of color above 
a porch or atop a terrace 
wall. They are boxes still, 
although a window box 
can only be a window box 
when directly applied to a 
window. But what mat- 
ters such rigidness of no- 
menclature. A box is a 
box, wherever it is placed, 
and a box filled with flow- 
ering plants, or with baby 
evergreens or non-flower- 
ing plants, is still a thing 
of beauty and a source of 
constant pleasure wherever 
it is placed and wherever 
it is successfully grown. 
But the more elaborate use 
of the flower box is better 
left in the hands of the 
professional gardener 
than undertaken by the 
individual house - owner. 
may seem most naturally 
suited to those houses that 
have no garden of their 
own, but be assured this is 
not so. A growth of bril- 
liant bloom, of warm 
green, or of variegated 
leaves, is always welcome 
against the house, be the 
garden as elaborate as it 
may. It both beautifies 
and adorns, and it at once 
rests the eye and gives a 
welcome emphasis to the 
openings of the house wall. 
If, perchance, the box 
fails, the remedy of re- 
planting is always at hand. 
And the amount involved 
is always so small, for the 
boxes themselves, for the 
ordinary window are but 
small in size, that fresh 
boxes can always be looked 
for and can always be 
maintained. This much, 
at least, can not be said of 
the garden in the ground, 
where, failure once ad- 
The watering of the most mitted, is more than likely 
beautiful flowers may be- to be permanent in its ruin. 
come a burden when their Olsitachtoned dower Gicthe box of thisswindow It is this readiness and 
care is a labor. cheapness with which win- 
Whether one has a garden or not, the flower box dow-box gardening can be carried out that constitutes one of 
may be a source of delight at all times. Perhaps it its most attractive features. 
eas Tae 
Well-filled flower boxes along the rail of the piazza are an Red geraniums and green vines are harmonious colors 
attractive feature for a white house 
