.WINDOW AND 



well. They start off all right, but by the time 

 they ought to be doing great things they begin 

 to look rusty, and it isn't long before they look so 

 sickly and forlorn that I feel like putting them 

 out of their misery by dumping them in the ash- 

 heap." 



Now this woman's experience is the experience 

 of many other women. She thinks, — ^and they 

 think, — that they lack the " gift " that enables 

 some persons to grow flowers successfully while 

 others fail utterly with them. They haven't " the 

 knack." Now, as I have said elsewhere in this 

 book, there's no such thing as "a knack " in 

 flower-growing. Instead of "a knack" it's a 

 " know-how." Ninety-nine times out of a hundred 

 failure with window-boxes is due to just one 

 thing: They let their plants die simply because 

 they do not give them water enough. 



Liberal watering is the " know-how " that a 

 person must have to make a success of growing 

 good plants in window and veranda boxes. Sim- 

 ply that, and nothing more. 



The average woman isn't given to " studying 

 into things " as much as the average man is, so 

 she often fails to get at the whys and wherefores 

 of many happenings. She sees the plants in her 

 boxes dying slowly, but she fails to take note of 



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