VERANDA BOXES 



the humble home that has no room for flowers 

 outside its walls, the homes in the congested city, 

 away up, up, up above the soil in which a few 

 flowers might possibly be coaxed to grow, if man 

 thought less of gain and more of beauty, can be 

 made more like what home ought to be, with but 

 httle trouble and expense, by giving these boxes 

 a chance to do their good work at their windows. 

 Blessed be the window-box ! 



Many persons, however, fail to attain success 

 in the cultivation of plants in boxes at the win- 

 dow-sill, and their failures have given rise to the 

 impression in the minds of those who have 

 watched their undertaking, that success with them 

 is very problematical. " It looks easy," said a 

 woman to me last season, " when you see some- 

 body else's box just running over with vines, but 

 when you come to make the attempt for 

 yourself you wake up to the fact that there's a 

 knack to it that most of us fail to discover. I've 

 tried my best, for the last three years, to have 

 such boxes as my neighbor has, and I haven't 

 found out what's wrong yet. I invest in the 

 plants that are told me to be best adapted to 

 window-box culture. I plant them, and then I 

 coax them and coddle them. I fertilize them and 

 I shower them, but they stubbornly refuse to do 



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