AN INDOOR GARDEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 10 (Supplement)

AN INDOOR GARDEN.

Here are directions for an indoor garden. It would make a pretty

ornament, or a novel gift.

Fill a bowl, pie dish of even a soup plate with sand. This is better than earth and not so messy. Collect some small stones, bricks, and if you are at the seaside, some pretty tiny shells at> well. Put on top of the sand and plant moss in the gaps. For trees use twigs of plants which do not die quickly, such as lavender (which will make the garden smell beautifully) box, holly, or any evergreen. If your garden is large enough it can have a jwnd. This is made by! putting the lid of a cocoa tin in the sand, filling with water and bordering I with moss. You can put a toy duck on it. Hills are made of sand heaped up. and forests are made of trees planted close together in a flat stretch of sand covered in moss.

If you have' a tiny toy house to pjit in the forest, so much tlie better, 'ion can iit?e real flowers if you water them and remove when dead, but an indoor garden without flowers, usine just evergreens and "everlastings," will keep fresh for weeks.

Don't, if you have a pond, forget to change the water frequently and to damp the moss.