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Window Gardening

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
January
Year
1872
Copyright
Public Domain
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A correspondent senas us the loUowing ou the subject of house plante and Window Gardcning. It will" be interesting and auggesUve to our readers: " 1 have a broad sunny whidow seat illed witli planta in my bod room, and also a table in tbo dining room. Begonias, salvias, heliotrope, Chines') primrose, ire in bloom, and we have lately had moming glories, froin tho seed sown in October ; thore aro also geraniums, golden and other colens, lycopodium, ïnojs, ferns, oxalis, cactus, fucbsios, etc. Tn each wind ow hangs a rustió bajket filled with Gorman ivy, two kinds of trajecanthus, ferns, money wort, stonc erop, colens, begonia, lobelia, striped graas and niosses. : are a ' happy fainily,' and thriviug in rooms warmod by fumaco heat, and l by gas:i at night. " üy pïants are watered every morning, and oftonei if the earth is dry, with wenk s:i suds, tepid. Once a week a teaspooiiful of amuioiiiu is added, and every few daytf thoy are showered with pure water, ïy mcans of a brush, this keeps them frush. and green. " At night I remove a few of the more tender planta from tbe window seat, and after dra wing down the nhade, Iplaoe a largo newspaperbetween tand the plants; this keeps out tho cold effectually. In the dining room the plants are in a bay vfindow, on a tabla with castors, and this is rollfid back from the window at niijht. " Roses and verbenas I do not keep in tho house, partly beeause tho rooms are too warm, and the plants become covured with g a rose-bud in that condition is anythinqr bui attractive, I prafer U leaye the rosea in the garden beds, well covered with aslies and leaves, and the next summec they grow vigorously, and flower profusely. Verbenas do not bloom in winter, and in tho spring can be bought at onu a dozen, or less. Any of tho florista sencl plants now by mail, postage i'ree, and oarefully put up in moss. I have received somo in that way I from a distance. "I have lately foimd a way to destroy the arreen lico on plants, and have tried it with suceess. It is to fold up a little tobáceo in a wisp o: n iwspaper, light it :tn 1 blow out the name, and pas3 it under the branelies : tho smoku soon causes tho lico to drop off, and oleans tho plants without injuring tl " A lato aitiele in a wee'.;ly paxcr has given me an idea whieh, if citnied out, will beantify the windowa It is to place brackets at euch sid?, and on them prrtty colorod flower pots, or ruitic baskets, andineaoh an English ivy, trained up to meet over tbs Windows ; they will bo vory graceful and a constant pleasure. In tho summer they will bc bstter for out door sun and rain, but this is not

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Michigan Argus