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New, Hare and, 
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Vol. 1 . — No. 4 . 
JANUARY, 1878. 
* Published Quarterly, at 
) 25 Cents a Year. 
WINDOW GARDENING. 
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\li, how beautiful ! ” we are often led to exclaim, as we pass a window tilled 
with fresh looking plants, during the cold and dreary days of winter, and 
how naturally we associate pleasure and happiness with them, and in imagi- 
nation see the cheerful face and careful hand arranging plants; picking a 
, leaf here as 
or training a 
may dictate, 
will have a little chat 
their window garden, 
useful hints in regard 
we will assume the 
have at least a few 
ten their homes; and 
are successful in 
factorily, our experi- 
may be of some assist- 
With this article 
for a window garden, 
the best we have ever 
are practical a n d 
house. Fig. It) repre- 
dow, with a shelf, 
around it upon brack- 
made of cheap mate- 
as one may choose, 
pains to make this 
think it can tell its 
made to represent a 
bably most of our 
design carried out 
old mode of keeping 
table or stand is objec- 
as to bring the pot as 
plant ought to be; 
we have had made for 
tables on rollers, so 
with ease. They are 
window sill, about 18 
length of the window 
way avoid all danger 
pets, and being so low 
the view from the FlG - 19 ‘ 
good illustration of such a table well filled with fine plants. 
necessity may require 
vine there as fancy 
And now the Index 
with its friends about 
and try to give a few 
to their treatment, for 
fact that all its friends 
house plants to brigh- 
as very few persons 
growing them satis- 
ence and observation 
ance to them, 
we give two designs 
which we think are 
seen, both of which 
are adapted for every 
sents a common win- 
and a frame or fence 
ets, which can be 
rial or more costly, 
We have taken great 
illustration plain, and 
own story. Fig. 20 is 
bay window, and pro- 
readers have seen its 
with good effect. The 
plants on an ordinary 
tionable, being so high 
high as the top of the 
and to obviate this, 
our sitting room some 
they can be moved 
just the height of the 
inches wide, and the 
frame ; and in this 
from dampness to car- 
they do not obstruct 
window. Fig. 21 is a 
(This electrotype was 
sent to us by a friend, and was probably copied from another work, but we do not 
know where.) But the care of plants is of quite as much importance as a nice place 
