WINDOW GARDENiya. 
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dow Gardening, which bear well a hot summer. Of course, we need shady 
places for most of them. On the high mountains of the Alps, where in summer 
the temperature is much lowered at night, the plants like full light to spread 
forth the brilliancy of their colors. To protect now, by cultivating Alpine 
plants of durability, the same against high temperature during our long and 
hot summer, we recommend the folI(>\\ ins; in •xn^cmoiit and tTcitniont 
Have a flat box m ide about tight ihcIilsj hij^li, and w idc LiiuUj^h at. to be easily 
(ilaced into the window casing. CoNer the box, \\hioh is best inaJo of z.i.c, at 
the bottom with sand about an inch in depth, then arrange the pots in it accord- 
ing to their size. Give to plants of a tall growth the centre, and surround them 
by the smaller ones. Then fill up the spaces between each pot with a compost 
