Show 9 M 5 DT r care aind div aiom ra L V oi 11 t A bunch of mums that makes bright the living room HANDLING FLOWER POTS by IDA M castera casters we know arc aro cheap five cenie cents apiece and four of at these fas tonel hi the discarded die carded lees less of an old tabb bed or ev ovon it theeo these are not at hand four pieces ot of square pine wood on which you can nail a long shallow box this Is really a good stand mad on which to slip your window plants la in choir pote pots fill the shallow box halt full of 0 band sand bed the pata f ata in thia this sand which absorb absorbs the moisture from tho the pots sa saving saing ing the carpet below and sending some at it back into the plant roots of ot course the box should be painted a good colot color I 1 have seen for this arrangement the ct tho the legs painted green and the baz done in lattice like stripes of white and green make the box as long jong aa as you have room each bide side of the window not measuring juet just the window space itself as then thenn one chaa can alternate the pot pots bringing the end pits in turn to the middle and direct light co on very cold nighta rf aa as glass draws frost as well as to beat flowers often get nipped A box for plants resting on casters la Is easily drawn way from the window direct and can be pushed back the next morning these casters are also a convenience wh in sweeping about the window any woman who keeps bouse house plants in her room can herself make two or three window boxes leg legs and all picked up from where carpenters are building these boxes of course are used mainly in windows that are kept tor for the saving saying of plants for spring and yet they can contain an assortment of flowers which banked back of a win dow giro give an effective picture of beauty to the passerby pas passer sorby by as is well as to the tho in mates of the room for a small window and one from which you must get light for the room be sparing of the plants there ie Is noth ing inc pretty in a dark room the cause of which is the window literally hung and placed full of all manner of foliage it ie in such a n mistake to fill tip up a window so full of planta and tines vines in win ter that one ons can neither get light for reading nor sight tight of the prettier world ou outside taide A few plants in a small win dow artistic artistically illy arranged Is a much happer scheme it you are buying winter plant plants from the tho florla I 1 don t unwrap the roots until ready to pot them but be sure to give the soil in which the plant roots are bedded plenty of 0 water keep them literally soaked in water and by tho the time you are ready to pot it tt it bo but two hours after you will find the plant wonderfully refreshed ap I 1 4 r V it t 4 t M IF Z the new now bridal bouquet SAVE YOUR BULBS do not throw away your winter bulbs they can be kept until next spring and planted in the garden where it Is possible they may recover enough of their original strength to gire give a crop ot of flowers the next seabon oa i it Is possible I 1 nay say but it IS I 1 lot at fit all ill probable that one out of ten will do lie still it does ro hann harm to try it I 1 la about as easy to put them into tb th ground as an to dump them into th abo a retire refuse heap but I 1 would never anyone to make usa of cheso bulbs a second season t agon la in the huso they cannot be depended on at V le it the lerbert 1 in the world |