Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — Window Boxes, Which May Be Started at Small Cost, Make Home More Cheerful [ARTICLE]

Window Boxes, Which May Be Started at Small Cost, Make Home More Cheerful

Window boxes made up of flowering plants, give an added touch of brightness and pleasure to the home life and may be started at a small outlay, according to M. F. Ahearn, professor of landscape gardening in the Kansas State Agricultural college. “Both indoor and outdoor boxes may be used to good advantage,” said Professor Ahearn, “and the most satisfactory outdoor window box may be had by using evergreens such as red cedar, arbor vitae, and white and blue spruce. “These plants should be from 6 to 18 inches in height? and may be arranged effectively by keeping the taller ones in the center and back, and the smaller ones in the foreground. Such a bpx, after being well started, will require little attention and need not be protected from wintry weather. “For the indoor window boxes, Boston fern, German ivy, variegated periwinkle, red geraniums, nasturtiums, snapdragon, and vinca alba may be used with good effect All the flowers should be removed from the plants as soon as they begin to fade. In order to obtain the best results the box plants should be given an application of fertilizer once or twice a month. An east or south exposure will be found best for most window plants."