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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: J. B. Lippincott company Subjects: Gardening Flowers Flower gardening Gardening / General Gardening / Flowers / General Gardening / Garden Design Gardening / Reference Gardening / Regional / General Gardening / Techniques Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: WINDOW-BOXES Wondrous interlacement! Holding fast to threads by green and silky rings, With the dawn it spreads its white and purple wings; Generous in its bloom, and sheltering while it clings, Sturdy morning-glory. Helen Hunt: Morning-Glory. Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. Keats: I Stood Tiptoe upon a Little Hill. As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. Henrt Ward Beechxr: A Discourse of Flowers. BACK-YARD GARDENS AND WINDOW-BOXES HEN I not long ago visited a friend who lives among huddled city houses, a thought of green things growing in the fragment of a back yard which it was my privilege to enjoy made me wonder if it were not possible to do something to improve the condition of things in some of these substitutes for a real home, and one day I suggested to my friend the advisability of making an experiment in that direction. "It seems to me you might grow a few common flowers," I said. " I wish I might," she responded, " but I don't believe anything would grow in a back yard. I don't see how it could. The weeds won't, and if they can...