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WHAT WINDOWS TO GROW 



PLANTS IN 



HOSE who set out to grow 

 plants in the house for the 

 first time often make some 

 serious mistakes by select- 

 ing kinds not adapted to 

 the windows in which they 

 propose to grow them. 

 Too often they take it for granted that a win- 

 dow with a western exposure is just as good 

 as a window opening to the south, or to the 

 east, and they find out their mistake when it is 

 too late to rectify it. Unless proper exposure 

 can be given plants, I would not advise trying 

 to grow any until you are sure that you can 

 modify existing conditions to a satisfactory 

 extent. 



There are many plants which must have 

 full exposure to sunshine. They may live 

 on indefinitely in sunless windows, but they 

 will prove comparative failures there. There 



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