Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The cultivation of plants indoors before a window.
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Examples
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The greenhouse species are very showy, growing without extra care, and blooming freely through the late winter and spring months and some of them make excellent window-gardening subjects.
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Furthermore, window-gardening is closely associated with various forms of temporary plant protection about the residence
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A love of plants and window-gardening is another healthful pleasure.
Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers Mary Ellen Richmond 1894
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They are proud of their window-gardening in Berlin, but I think London windows in June are gayer and more flowery.
Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894
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The town itself is cheerful, with decorative bits of window-gardening, hanging dormers, abundance of flowers growing everywhere, and much life animating its old and new quarters.
Holidays in Eastern France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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The gracious influence of art and music, pictures and window-gardening, and the like, will lend their aid to soften and refine.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Sylvie might well enough do the same, or go to them for hints and helps in her window-gardening and little ingenuities of housekeeping.
The Other Girls 1865
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[FN#328] For this "window-gardening," an ancient practice in the
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Bond, "she said;" and now may I read you that article on window-gardening that you said you would like to hear? "
Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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