Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1894 — Seasonable Suggestions. [ARTICLE]

Seasonable Suggestions.

New York Star. — ‘~ A young man who has apartment* on Lexington avenue likes to keej about him reminders of summer even in the depths of winter, and with that object in view he has just started his bottle garden. “I have nt time, money or space to spare foi potted plants,” he said the othei day, “but I like green things in th< windows. So each fall I get a number of wide-mouthed bottles and fill them with water. In one I put s sprig of live-forever. It quickly sends out roots and lasts indefinitely. A sweet potato furnishes mi with a spledid trailing vine. Flaxseed dropped in water soon begin? to grow, and for color and bloom ] have the Chinese lily and Resurrection plant.”