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Show HANDLING THE FLOWER POTS Box With Castors Attached Will Be Found of Great Convenience When Cleaning Room. (By I. M. SHEPLER.)' Abox fox plants resting on castors may easily be drawn away from the window on cool nights in winter, and pushed back the next morning. These castors are also a convenience con-venience when sweeping about fhe window. Any woman who keeps house-plants in her rooms can, herself, her-self, make two or three window-boxes, legs and all, picked up from where carpenters are building. These boxes, of course, are used mainly in windows that are kept for the saving of plants for spring, and yet they can contain an assortment of flowers, which, banked back of a window, give an effective picture of beauty to the passer-by as well as to the inmatete of the room. For a small window, and one from which you must get light for the room, be sparing of the plants. There j is nothing pretty in a dark room, the Removing Plant From Pot. cause of which is the window literally hung and placed full of all manner of foliage. It Is such a mistake to fill up a window so full of plants and vines in the winter that one can neither get light for reading nor sight of the prettier world outside. A few plants In a small window, artistically arranged, ar-ranged, is a much happier scheme. And is there anything more dismal than a window stuck full from top to bottom of little green cuttings in tin cans or any old pot? Where is the beauty? f |
