CHAPTER IY. 
FERN WINDOWS. 
IYCE the delightful practice of ‘window 
gardening 5 has come into vogue town 
dwellings have assumed — where this 
practice is pursued — a far more pleasant aspect 
than they formerly did when there was no 
thought of utilizing windows for floral purposes. 
But though we have said that there has been, 
during recent years, a great increase in the 
practice of 4 window gardening,’ it is still very 
far indeed from having reached its full develop- 
ment. Year by year it is true the number of 
window gardeners, both amongst rich and poor, 
is sensibly augmented. In the fashionable parts 
of our towns well-to-do house occupiers some- 
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