1 8 Special Features of the Garden 



Cut flowers cannot be procured every month of 

 the year unless one has a greenhouse or patronizes 

 a florist constantly, so a simple and inexpensive 

 way of insuring flowers is to have a collection 

 in pots. Everyone can have one or more house 

 plants. There is really no excuse in the world 

 which will hold good when it comes to denying 

 a house the right to a blossom. No other mark 

 of decoration will do so much for a room and no 

 other object will yield so much pleasure as the 

 growing plant. Outdoors much of their real value 

 is lost among the foliage of other plants, but in- 

 doors they receive the appreciation due them, and 

 among objects remaining stationary day after day 

 the growing plant, with its ever-changing form, 

 will be of great interest. 



A variety of color among the house plants should 

 be selected; and if the plants are kept in the 

 conservatory, or some place which serves as a 

 conservatory, and are brought out one at a time 

 and placed in the living room or on the dining- 

 room table, each will be a new delight in its turn. 

 No house plant should remain more than two or 

 three days in the living room without being 

 replaced by another while it is set in the sunlight 

 again, otherwise it will soon droop. 



House plants usually get plenty of attention, as 



