MANAGEMENT OF PLANTS IN ROOMS. 



Perhaps a few hints on the management of plants in 

 rooms, may not be unacceptable to our readers. We, 

 therefore, extract from Paxton's Magazine of Botany, 

 the following observations : — 



" Hints on the general management of plants are 

 attended with considerable difficulty 5 every genus re- 

 quiring some little variation, both in soil, water, and 

 general treatment. If the room where the plants are 

 intended to be placed, is dark and close, but few will 

 ever thrive in it ; if, on the contrary, it is light and airy, 

 with the windows in suitable aspect to receive the 

 sun, plants will do nearly as well as in a greenhouse. 

 If observed to suffer, the effects may be traced to these 

 causes, either want of proper light and air — injudi- 

 cious watering — filthiness collected on the leaves — or 

 being potted in unsuitable soil. 



" 1. Want of propel' light and air, is perhaps the most 

 essential point of any to be considered 5 for, however 

 well all other requisites are attended to, a deficiency 

 of these will always cause the plant to grow weak and 

 sickly. Let them always be placed as near the light 

 as they can conveniently stand and receive as much air 



