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Show Window Box Is Easily Made by Home Owner Window boxes, especially in small cottages or bungalows, add at least 100 per cent to the appearance of the place. Boxes for the windows are easily made, even by one who has only passing pass-ing skill with hammer and saw. There is, however, more to making a window-box window-box in which flowers and plants will grow well, than in just knocking a few boards together. In the first place measure the size of the window. The box to fit and look well should be about one or two inches shorter on each end than the window frame Itself. The depth should be about tune or ten inches and the width, of course, depends on what one wishes to grow. Ten or twelve Inches has been found ample to take care of most of the window box variety of plants and flowers. If the worker has the skill, It would make a better box If he were to make a false bottom and then cut a few small holes in the real bottom of the box. A window box, because of Us limited possibilities, should huve only tlie best of soil put into it. |