Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1875-12-10
window AdOrnnIents.

At this season of the year the beautiful
color of field and forest leads TO desire
for home adornment, and the finely tinted
leaves are gathered and preserved, and do
excellent service in making home attract
i've till the leaves and Towers come again.
But while these relics of the past are doing
good service in their humble way, making
the dark corners glow with faint ginmer
Of life, we may make the light by the win
dows do us equal if not better service, by
feeding living plants and aiding them 10
bear for US sweet and lovely flowers. Vines
may be trained up the window frames,
pots may be made TO stand in brackets,
and banging baskets let the flowing shoots
hang down. All this does not take much
to do, but people OMEN think otherwise,
and this is why 50 few have nothing at all.
Indeed the choice flowers of the cOnserva-
tories are often among the worst for win
dow culture and the wild weed would be
a much greater success and be more pleas
ing than the most valued exolics from
foreign land. Indeed weed is not weed
only in relation TO time and place. 1t is
flower and a valued flower when it comes
where it does not grow naturally and
where il is desired TO come. There is no
growth in Winter out of doors, and so the
wild flower growing in the windows in
Winter is no more a weed than anything
that grows. There are many green things
in woods and meadows, ferns, MOSES,
vines, and SO on, that would remain quite
green only for severe frosts and cold winds.
In xvindo,ye tI,iS 10 oncOnn pliSba1 I nnuSt
however, be borne in mind that these nat
urally hardy plants do not like much heat,
and hence they are adapted to cool rooms
and not TO warm ones. With heat they
are worthless. For such heated rooms the
more tropical plants must be used. 1t is
not our purpose here to name varieties 10
grow, but rather 10 suggest that anything
that comes to hand will do, and to offer a
practical word or two as 10 treatment that
may be of service. Air fresh from the outside,
whenever it is not frosty, is of course an
advantage, as the foul air from heaters, gas
burners, and other contrivances are more
or less of an injury. The sunlight is, of
course all know, benefit at all times.
Will this or that do well in tue shade, is
oflen question. Some things as ferns
MOSES, will do, but even these like sun,
if not too warm sun. AS TO watering,
this is the great question with all window
plant growers. We see it stated that well
known horticulturist of this place, in a re-
cent address TO the horticultural society,
gave it as his opinion that there was much
more danger from TOO much than too little
water to room plants. This is our expert
ence. If one is not quite sure from the
appearance of the earth and Of the plants,
it is better rather TO wait little while, say
for day, than to risk it. They will be
pretty sure to need the water then and be
benefited by receiving it. In regard TO
plants in baskets, however, we should
think the ideas of our horticultural friend
might be reversed. These we think are
generally injured by too little rather than
too much water. The danger is therefore
from the other side. They often get but a
drop or two from cup, and basin held
under the basket TO catch the drip; but
besides this a hanging basket should be
dipped in bucket of water about once a
week.-GermdntoW Telegraph.