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CHAPTER YIII. 



THE ^v^xDo^y garden. 



Elastic Pla?st 

 Sprtxkler is made 

 with a flat bottom, 

 and perforated, de- 

 tachable, brass top. 

 Is invaluable for 

 Window Gardening, 

 Boquet Sprinkling, 

 etc. 



Perhaps there will be no chapter in the book that will be 

 more thoroughly read than this, and no other will contain 

 any information that is needed so much as the information 

 that this one should contain. AVe will endeavor to make it as 

 concise and complete as our limited space will allow. While 

 the financial cundition of the great mnjorit3' of us will not 

 admit of our being the happ3' possessorsof conservatories filled 

 with rare exotics, we can each have our window garden, from 

 which we will derive as much pleasure as those who have been 

 more highly favored. It is not necessary that the window 

 have a southern or eastern aspect ; certainly this is preferable 

 for hJooming plants, yet if our window is toward the north we 

 can grow our Palms, Musk, Saxifrage, and many others. In 

 this respect then, no person is debarred from cultivating 

 window plants; in fact we can grow plants with moderate 

 success in every window in the house. Some of our friends 

 Lave a bay window in which to grow their plants. They are a 

 great improvement on the old style. We have heard some 

 complain about the trouble of moving the plants when they 

 desired to close the shutters. If the reader is bothered in thi« 

 way, let him have a stand ma2.e, the top of which will just fit 

 in the space in the window ; this stand should be on castors • 

 it can be pulled back into the room until the shutters are 



