Window gardening : devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for indoor use and parlor decoration . 134 WINDOW GARDENING. and open or are closed by a little button fastener. The size is as follows : Heightof vase and glass, 5 feet 9 inches ; width of vase, 2 feet; height of glass frame, 3feet. In the top of the glass frame Mr. Hibberd suspended four half cocoanutshells, in which he planted some ferns; holes are cut in the bottom for drainage;and copper wire only used for hanging them. The contents are thus describedby Mr. Hibberd in his i^loral World : This case contain
Window gardening : devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for indoor use and parlor decoration . 134 WINDOW GARDENING. and open or are closed by a little button fastener. The size is as follows : Heightof vase and glass, 5 feet 9 inches ; width of vase, 2 feet; height of glass frame, 3feet. In the top of the glass frame Mr. Hibberd suspended four half cocoanutshells, in which he planted some ferns; holes are cut in the bottom for drainage;and copper wire only used for hanging them. The contents are thus describedby Mr. Hibberd in his i^loral World : This case contains at the present timetwo pretty chmbing plants ; one is the common Ivy of the British woods, Hederahelix ; the other is Lijgodium scandens, an elegant climbing fern. The palm-like fern in the centre is Nephrole^iis exaltata—the finest fern in the world for acentre piece; both because of its character and also that it may be cut withoutspoiling it, if it happens to grow too tall. With it are examples of Pteris cre-tica albo-lineata, an elegant variegated fern; Niphobohis lingua—a hardy tongue-like fern ; Onychium J
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