HOUSE PLANTS 



CHAPTER I 

 How Other People Have Succeeded 



A plain statement of facts — Practical ideas in window 

 gardens — Glass houses for forcing in winter — Heat- 

 ing problems solved. 



A GROUP of healthy looking, vigorous- 

 growing house plants always fills me with 

 delight for it must be confessed at the out- 

 set that the thoroughly successful cultiva- 

 tion of a large number of plants in a window 

 garden or in any part of a dwelling house 

 is no mean achievement. The conditions 

 with which living plants have to contend 

 when brought into our ordinary living rooms 

 are trying indeed. The fluctuations of tem- 

 perature are usually not only great, but 

 also sudden; light is neither uniform nor 

 abundant; and the atmosphere is generally 

 excessively dry. This last condition is par- 

 ticularly true in the winter time, when 

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