PREPARE FOR SPRING.
THE WINDOW BOX. Ono can lavish on window gardening all tho luxury of a handsomo pocket edition. For limited spaco in the boxes and tho fact that they aro mostly a summer effort make the wildest extravagance a small affair. It is worth facing extra care and cost to keep them full of flowers. Coax the plants into blossom all tho time, and, when they aro really spent, replace them with latei blooming kinds. This will keep your window garden beautiful tlit summer through. Boxes in wood or earthenware are always obtainable, but may easily be nailed up at homo out of 9in. board about an inch thick The cracks in the corners can bo stopped with a daub of red lead, and the box weather-proofed with a coat or two of green paint inside and out.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20300, 6 July 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
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