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come from better care, as some suppose, but 

 from more favorable conditions. As a general 

 thing, the owner of a window-garden lavishes 

 more care upon her plants than the profes- 

 sional florist does on his. She has to do this 

 in order to secure even a moderate degree of 

 success. Half that care expended on plants 

 grown in quarters more favorable to healthy 

 plant development would enable her to grow 

 plants quite as well as the professional. How 

 she would like to do that! She has tried her 

 best to make her plants equal those she has seen 

 at flower shows and florists' exhibitions, but her 

 efforts have always fallen far short of the suc- 

 cess she aimed at. By and by, after years of 

 repeated effort, she has come to the conclusion 

 that it is impossible to grow such plants as she 

 would like to in the sitting-room windows, and 

 she feels that she must be content with inferior 

 specimens. This is always a source of keen 

 regret with the person who grows flowers from 

 a love of them, and who, because of that love, 

 would delight in seeing them reach that per- 

 fection which she knows plants can be brought 

 to under right conditions. She is right in her 

 conclusion as to the impossibility of achieving 

 anything but mediocre success with plants in a 



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