Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-05-16
MAKE A LITTLE GARDEN
IN YOUR WINDOW BOX

One may live in city flat without
a foot OF ground to call his own, and
Vet have garden. The window box
solves the problem. Even sunny
window Is not necessary. although TO
be preferred: there are plants and
flowers which flourish In the shade
The window garden will be thinp
of beauty all summer II properly
made aud managed, aud the poet says
You know. that thing of beauty is
- JOY forever. II lives Ia memory after
1t has faded from sight
Many people fail OF success with
window and porch boxes because they
do not make them deep enough.
When warm weather comes they dry
out quickly and the flowers perish
for lack OF water. II must be re-
memhersd that the box Is a real gar
den IN miniature "A gardenette. as
II We're. The processes which so on
within II are the same as those which
20 on In the soil everywhere. Eight
inches Is none too deep for the WIN
dow box, which muct be made firm
~. as the wet earth eNerts consider
able pressure against the sides.
over the street II must be fastened
So securely that the most violent
winds cannot wrench Il loose. other
wisethere may be broken leads anu
damage suits.
Well-otted stable manure. pulver-
lied sheep manure from the seed
store, or little bouemeal may pc
mixed with good garden soil
the garden Is made In The box For a
very small sum enough suitable earth
may bee secured, no doubt. az the shop
OF the nearest scotsman or florist
City people sometimes are puzzled
TO know where they can obtain ut
tie common earth.
All through the season water must
be applied with generous hand,
even more so than IN the garden.
for the reason that The soil In boxes
Is more exposed TO the air and dries
more quickly. In warm weather.
watering every day H. needed Holes
for drainage are often made Ia the
bottom OF the window box. but zeal
Is are not needed unless the plants
are flooded with water. which is go
ing 10 extremes Certainly there
should bee no drainage holes when
the box is over the street. for reasons
that are obvious.
By the middle OF summer window
gardens which have made brave
show up to that time often begin 90
look sccdy and thriftloss. Tho owners
wonder why. buf slt helplessly by
aud see their lowers perish lr
the cause is o simple one the plants
are starved They have taken up an
the available plant food Boz the soil
and need square meal u am appli-
cation of sheep manure IS made on
the surface aud lightly worked into
the soil. with several more appiica-
tions before the end of the season
the plants win revive and continue
10 yield their blossoms. Inc same
result may boz accomplished b. pour
ing on manure water about the color
OF weak tea once or twice a week
There are plants and flowers in
great variety veil adapted 20 window
box culture Most effective results
are secured when these tall plants
combined with twiIiu vines Ger
aniums are popular aud easily grown
and variegated iuca q splendid TRAIL
or. supplements IL nicely Thunuer-
gia s. a good vine and bears many
dark-eyed blossoms. but DO Graves t1r
sun. Pe'unias are handsome bios
soming plants for sunny windows
Marguerite and uastlrtiums are aI
~ very satisfactory. and early Or
the season pansies may be grown
For shaded windows lot the cuo.re
be- bcgonias, primroscs. fuchs.as and
gloxinies among the Towering plants
with ivy or yinca for vines. Money
wort Is fine, too. although not So well
known
" the garden maker has good
taste he or she. more likely sill
not Try Ia grow too many kinds In
one boy. a gardoucttc composed ~
pink geraniums and yinca is much
handsomer than one which Is merely
4 hodgepodge