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Title: Window gardening : devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for indoor use and parlor decoration
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Window gardening House plants
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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elledfor such a position. Erect plants should not be chosen, although Verbenas,Abronias, and Thunbergias are not objectionable. Where shells are used, they may be ornamented with different shades ofmoss, mixing the white mosses with the green as you glue them on. The sections of large pine cones will also ornament prettily. Tack them onwith brads, boring each scale with a brad-awl, so as not to split them. Alter-nate the scales, and varnish the whole, and you will be quite satisfied with theeffect. It can be suspended with red or green curtain cord, fastened throughholes, as before directed, with bows or rosettes at the top and sides. The conesof the dried burs of the Sweet Gum Tree, if strung together on wire or strongtwine, as beads are arranged in fancy baskets, make a handsome basket, whoserustic appearance is very pleasing. The simplest and prettiest of all these constructions is that made from smallsticks of oak, maple, beach, or other wood, cut in lengths of eight, ten, twelve,
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WINDOW GARDENING. 108 or more inches, according to the size you desire. They must be about an inchin diameter, and a hole should be bored with a gimblet an inch from the end ofeach stick. They are put together in log-house fashion, one stick lopping overthe other, and a wire with a loop on the upper end is passed through the holesat each corner, and bent up on the under side. A piece of board an inch thickis then fastened to the sides for a bottom, and the spaces between the stick.!should be filled up with moss. Small iron chains suspend such baskets, andrich soil from the woods is the best to grow the plants that will twine roundthe chains and wreath them. Ribbons can be used if desired. We have seenmore than fifty of these baskets suspended from the roof of an orchid-house,and the effect was exquisitely beautiful. A cocoanut affords a very pretty miniature basket. Leave the husk on, and

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