IX 
SPECIAL WINDOWS AND TERRARIUMS 
ANY plants require for their full development a moist- 
er and more equable atmosphere than an ordinary 
dwelling-house can offer. Such plants should rather 
be excluded from a collection than be brought to 
a place where they are sure in the long run to be 
anything but ornamental. But persons who would like to 
grow any variety of this kind can, in an easy and inexpensive 
way, provide a suitable place for such plants. A good bay- 
window, or any spacious light and wide window, should be 
selected for this purpose, and separated from the room proper 
by means of glass doors, leaving an ample space in which a 
special atmospheric condition can be maintained by means of 
daily sprayings of the foliage. Being more close and easily 
over-heated on sunny days, facilities for airing and shading 
should be maintained and the temperature should be kept as — 
equal as possible. In such a small enclosure the plants should 
be arranged on stands and brackets, and some, satisfied with less 
sun, even on the floor. ‘This little mimic conservatory should 
not be overcrowded ; a few good specimens of the best kinds, of 
exceptionally beautiful Ferns, Clubmosses, Palms, and Orchids, 
that would suffer in the room itself, should be all, for it must 
be here borne in mind that an unusual number of all kinds 
and conditions of plants, arranged in a greenhouse-like way, 
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