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WINDOW GARDENING. 



Potting-. — Manuring. Soil. — Peat. — Loam. — Sand. — Leaf Mould. — 

 — Manure. — Proportions of Each. — Insects. — Green Fly. — Mealy 

 Bug. — Scale. — Red Spider. — Pruning. 



grow plants to perfection in a room 

 is not an easv thing. To insure any 



^^W^Vifif degree of success, a careful and con- 

 ^P^L ^r~^t^ ^~w\ stan ^ attention to details is necessary, 

 r-n^^^^^ These details are all little things in 



themselves ; they seem almost trivial ; but 

 their observance is imperative, if we would 

 have our plants in healthy foliage and profuse 

 bloom. It is by the neglect of all, or some of 

 these, that plants grown in rooms usually present 

 such a diseased, unhealthy appearance. 



Any one of us can call to mind some friend, who, as we 

 say, is always successful with flowers ; has blossoms when 

 no one else can, and whose plants are models of health and 

 beauty. We laughingly say, the flowers are his friends ; 

 he knows them, and they bloom for him ; and so it is, in 

 fact; he knows their peculiarities, attends to their wants, 

 feeds them properly, affords the requisite light and air. Is 

 it then a wonder that for him the grateful flowers put on 



