. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. CHAPTER XX Window Boxes and Porch Plants THERE are many enthusiastic gardeners f
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. CHAPTER XX Window Boxes and Porch Plants THERE are many enthusiastic gardeners for whom the force of circumstances rules that the window or porch garden is their only form of flower growmg possibiUty. To others the porch decoration has much to do with the whole appearance of the house. One word before we mention kinds of plants and boxes to A gay scene at Portland, Oregon. The boxes are filled chiefly with Petunias Many persons of exc6ptionaIly good taste in their home and garden seem to think that a discarded water tank for a receptacle, and a straggly display of hideous colors are the requirements for a porch gEirden such as we are to consider. This is not true. The container for the flowers should be of the same color as the house, or else of a harmonious shade. The plemts should be thickly set in the box and, contrary to most common usage, the colors should be an excellent contrast or a perfect harmony. The porch box should rarely be deeper than nine inches, from nine to twelve inches wide, and of any length. It will be much easier to hetridle a box not longer than three feet. It is suggested, 211. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Dick, John Harrison, 1877- ed. New York, A. T. De La Mare company, inc
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