Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — Window Plants. [ARTICLE]

Window Plants.

Cheeping plants are not hatlf enough used for house decoration. "What can be prettier than a window with a pot in which scarlet .tropaiolum has been trained up a stake some six feet high on each side of it, the top shoots of the plants brought across and attached .to each other so as to form an arch? Clematis can be so treat d with advantage; it ought to grow to the desired height under the gardener’s care, and only be brought in when in full beauty, as the conditions of light and air in a dwelling house are gem-rail •• against quickgrowmg plants.— Exchange* % Hope is a flatterer, but the most unright of aft parasites;-for shefrequents the poor man’s hut as well as the palace of his superior. —Nh enston e.