Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
DO YOU WANT TO HELP
BEAUTIFY THE CITY
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FROM E1rSI Bapc.
box gardens this Spring will have a
two-fold effect = first, the beautifica-
ton of the city and second an in
creased interest in gardening that
should make of Harrisburg a veritable
bower of floral bloom in the years to
come.
An effort will he made not only to
interest the individual resident, but to
have whole blocks organize for the
placing of windowboXes, so that the
effect may be uniform and impressive.
There is nothing that grows so in
beauty as plant life when massed.
Business houses will be asked to CO.
operate and big industries like the
Harrisburg Railways Company which
has Handicapped its carbarn yards, will
be urged to take part in this city
beautiful campaign.
Window and Veranda Boxes
Eben E. ReXford, a well-known
plant authority, writing of window
and veranda boxes, says that this form
of gardening has not only come to
stay, but that it may be safely at
tempetde by even those who know
nothing of the care of flowers. He
says:
The windowboX was first made
use of as a substitute for the garden
by those who loved plants and flow
them. So satisfactory was 1t. when
successful, that it speedily became
popular, and those who had ample
garden-room soon adopted it because
it brought a bit of the real garden to
the various rooms of the house, thus
making it easy for the occupants of
the home to enjoy the green things
growing" without obliging them to
take a visit to the garden in order
to do so. We may have plants grow
ing at the windows of our sitting
rooms, our parlors and our private
rooms, with all the luXuriance which
characterize their growth in the gar
denbeds from early Spring to the COM
ing OF frost If we make a judicious
selection of varieties and give them
the necessary care. And in this way
we really get more pleasure from our
plants that the garden can afford us
because we have them close at hand
at all times. We can get the benefit
of them while about our work.
so popular is this phase of gar
dening becoming that the country
home is rapidly adopting this system
of plant culture in addition to out
door gardening. The window garden
has come to stay, and it is going to
be the garden of the future in more
ways than one, especially in the cities
where no other facilities for plant cul-
ture are available.
This system of gardening has not
proven successful in many Instances.
In fact, there has been so large a per-
centage of failures that many persons
have abandoned it, declaring that only
those who have the knack" of grow
ing plants need hope for success with
1t. This is mistake. There is no
'knack' about it. Anyone can grow
plants in windowboxes, and grow
them well, If they make q proper
selection of varieties, and give them
proper attention.
Instructions by Experts
The Telegraph has arranged to pub
lish from time to time a series of ar
ticles by experts on the planting and
care of windowboxes. Some of this
matter is already prepared and will
be given to the readers of this news
paper as soon as the season is far
enough advanced to make the infor-
nation valuable.
Announcement of carefully compiled
estimates may be expected shortly
showing how a window or two, or a
whole house, a store or q factory, may
be beautified with windowboxes at the
lowest possible cost. What to plant
and how to plant will be told from
time to time and the articles will be
illustrated with pictures showing what
has been accomplished in Dayton and
other cities where windowboxes has
become one of the features of summer
life.
Watch the Telegraph for further
details.