"Window boxes well filled with suitable plants are a great attraction to any house, and to a great extent help to beautify that which would otherwise be a plain and uninteresting front without the cheering presence of flowers. It is strange that so few, comparatively speaking, take so little interest in this form of gardening, especially when it can be so cheaply done. Many a sombre-looking building might be made bright with window boxes well furnished with luxuriant plants full of flower during the summer months. The plants usually seen devoted to this purpose comprise but a small portion of subjects that might be used with effect, generally consisting of , s, and . These, although very attractive, and lasting in flower for a long period, might be supplemented by many other graceful and interesting plants to give a greater variety. With a little arrangement a most interesting garden, occupying but a small space, might be made, which would contain something of interest the whole year round."
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