206 Growing Flowers 



When plants are frozen, they should never be 

 brought at once into a hot room, but should be 

 placed in a room where the temperature is just a 

 trifle warmer than the temperature from which 

 they have just been taken. The temperature 

 should then be gradually brought to a higher degree 

 and this process should take two or three days. 



House plants often fail to thrive from no apparent 

 reason when what they really need is repotting. 

 Having eaten all the food from the old soil, they 

 require entirely new soil and the addition of fer- 

 tilizer alone will not answer the purpose. 



Provide potting soil when fertilizing the garden 

 in the fall. It should be placed in a large box or in 

 the pots and left to stand all winter when it will be 

 ready for spring use. If the frost or even a light 

 snow falls on it several times, and the sun heats it 

 afterward it will be in excellent condition in the 

 spring. 



The latter part of May or the first of June is 

 time enough for putting the house plants out of doors 

 and even then they should first be brought out on 

 a bright, sunshiny day and brought in at night for 

 several days, until they become accustomed to a 

 cooler temperature. 



