402 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



pitch to one corner so as to carry ofif surplvis water, although evap- 

 ation will likely care for all you put on. 





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The house svipportsone side of the roof and two corners, and three 

 center posts the other side and ends. Between the posts and 

 between the corner posts and the house fit double sash, each the full 

 size of the space, the inside one to be permanent and the outside one 

 to remove like a storm window. The g-lass can be any size you 

 choose, according- to the size of the space to fill. On one end and 

 next the house put a small door opening out-doors or on to a porch, 

 with a storm door for winter. Provide for ventilation by a sliding 

 pane of glass in one corner, opposite the small door. Next place 

 loose benches around the inside on the cement floor as high as the 

 lower edge of the glass, and three feet from the floor another shelf, 

 and two and one-half feet above that another shelf. 



To heat this room you put in a radiator or flue, where you have a 

 furnace, or, if stoves are used, you can easily heat it by opening the 

 doors into the room where a good fire is kept. We heated ours at 

 one time by a common stove in the sitting-room and never lost a 

 plant by freezing. If you have waterworks in the house, attach a 

 hose with a Vermoral nozzle for spraying the plants; but a common 

 force pump will answer every purpose. You will find it delightful 

 when the ground is covered with snow, and nothing but bare Ifmbs 

 on the trees greet your eyes, and not a blade of green grass to be 

 seen, to go into the plant room and spray the plants, that nod their 

 grateful appreciation ar;d fairly leap with joy for their refreshing 

 bath. Then, too, you get the delightful fragrance that is so notice- 

 able after a warm spring rain. The earth in the pots gives the same 

 rich odor that one gets from the fresh plowed ground. You forget 

 for the time that it is winter, and nothing on the place will give j'ou 

 half the pleasure for the slight expense. 



The main points I wish to make are that a person in moderate 

 circumstances can afford to have one, that tliey add greatly to the 



