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Show Window Box Is Easily Made by Home Owner Window boxes, especially In small cottages or bungalows, add at least KK1 per cent to the appearance of the place. I'.oxes 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 in which (lowers 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 nine or ten Inches and the width, of course, depends on what one wishes to grow. 'Jen or twelve Inehcg has been found ample to take care of most of Die window box variety of plants and flowers. If the worker has the skill, It would make a better box If lie were to make a false bottom and then cut a few-small few-small hole ;n the real bottom of the box. A window box, becnu-e of Its limited f).H.,:i,ii;iii..H, should have only the best of soil put Into It. |