GAEDEXIXG FOR LITTLE GIRLS 



WINDOW BOXES 



If you are a little city child, and can have only 

 a flower box in a window or along a porch-rail, 

 cheer np ! There is still a chance for you to have 

 posies all the long hot days. After ha^dng your 

 box filled with good, rich soil on top of a layer of 

 broken crockery or stones, — for drainage, you know, 

 —you can plant running nasturtiums along the 

 edge for a hanging vine. Inside of that plant a 

 row of the blue lobelia, or set in a few pansies al- 

 ready in bloom. Then you would have room for 

 still another row of taller plants, — say pink and 

 white geraniums, with a fern or two. Another 

 pretty box could be made by putting Wandering 

 Jew or ^'inch plant'' along the edge for the droop- 

 ing vine, then blue ageratum for your edging, with 

 next a row of lovely pink begonias. As it takes a 

 number of weeks for any seeds to grow and come 

 to flower, you might better save your candy pennies 

 and buy a few blooming plants from the spring 

 pedlar. They vriU gladden your heart while wait- 

 ing. 



All kinds of green add to these little boxes, and 

 all the white flowers soften and help to blend the 

 bright colors. China asters, in white, pink, and 

 lavender, are lovely in a window box, and if started 



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