Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1919 — GARDEN WITHIN HOME WALLS [ARTICLE]

GARDEN WITHIN HOME WALLS

Attractive Window Filling Adds Greatly to Appearance of House, Both Inside and Out. When winter compels us to bring in our goldfish and water lilies from our water garden and to tuck our roses in under warm overcoats and to mulch the beds in the regular garden, we donot cease to garden. For indoors we have our window or winter garden. It is part of the life of the home—an essential part, we hold. It might weH. be named “Everywoman’s Conservatory,” because there is nothing in it but what can be grown by every woman, and yet it is satisfying and beautiful always. Every country or suburban home can have one as good or better, at small cost and in return for a little care. Our winter or window garden i» part pf our living room, which faeessopth. The room is lighted by a double window, sash dimensions of theusual household size. There is a slight division between the two sections of the double window. A teachable carpenter did the work readily from our rough ideas. The little bit of summer that we keep with, us through the winter is contained in a tiny conservatory, -which is supported by strong wooden brackets and so* set against the house that it inclosesthe opening made by taking out thesash of our double window.—Estelle* M. Gilbert, in House Beautiful.