WINDOW-BOX PLANTS.
Plants in a window-box can be protected from winter winds with a strip of hessian 9in wide and 4in longei than the length, plus twice the width of the hox. Bind the edges and turn back 2in at each cud; sew a Jin curtain ring,at each corner. The rings are threaded over two jin white curtain rods pressed upright into the soil, one at each rear corner of the box, and are hooked on to the projecting heads of jin screws driven 9in apart into the rods. Hods without screws at the front of the hox guide the hessian round the edge. The length of the rods is lOin pins the depth of the hox; they are secured by jin brass saddles—easily bent to fit at the corners—-screwed to the wood above the soil.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 197, 21 July 1937, Page 12
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136WINDOW-BOX PLANTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 197, 21 July 1937, Page 12
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