Choose the common flower [http://ihomeinteriors.com/yard/ventilation-washing-and-watering-a-window-garden.html]-pots, selecting those which are light colored rather than those which are brick red; the former are soft baked and are more porous; in these, the plants thrive better.

Discard all glazed, china, glass, or fancy painted pots; they are not porous, and plants seldom thrive in them. There is nothing neater than the common earthen pot, if kept clean. If, however, something more ornamental is desired, choose some of the fancy potsand some are very pretty and artistic in designand let them be large enough to set the common pot inside.

But there is a very pretty way of fitting up a window which is but little practiced; it is, in fact, making the window a flower garden. Build from your window into the room a rounding wooden shelf, say, if the window is large, three feet in diameter from window to outer edge, but at any rate proportioned to the size of the window.

On this, place a large box, wood, or earthen ware unglazed, made to conform to the shelf, and in this put your plants, the taller at the back, the smaller in front, and on each side a climber to run over the top of the window, on a neat wire trellis or on strings.

It is desirable to have holes in the bottom of the box to allow superfluous water to escape, and to permit this, the shelf should be covered with zinc, which is preferable to tin, as it does not rust, and have a low rim all around it, with a little hole to drain off the superfluous water running from the boxes.

This is a very pretty way of window gardening, but is only to be practiced in a very light room; for in a room with but one window, the plants would all grow to the light, and being planted out, they could not be turned as if in pots.

A pretty way to grow low plants, bulbs, and is to fit a box, say eighteen inches wide, and as long as the window, into the window, and then place the taller plants behind in pots. This box could be turned as occasion required, or as the plants grew towards the light, or could even be removed from window to window.