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das with glass, if they open off the living-room 

 in such a manner that warmth can be admitted 

 readily to them. If there is only a window 

 or a door between them, I would advise cutting 

 away enough of the wall to make the opening 

 several times larger than that afforded by the 

 removal of these. Glazed doors can be fitted 

 to the opening or curtains can be hung there. 

 Doors which enable you to shut your plants 

 away from the living-room when it seems desir- 

 able to do so are preferable to hangings, as they 

 make it possible for you to use water so freely 

 on your plants that the air about them can be 

 kept moister than you would care to have it 

 in the living-room, and that is precisely what 

 they like. Of course, it is not possible to grow 

 the variety of plants in such a room that can 

 be grown in a real greenhouse, but the condi- 

 tions can be made so much more favorable to 

 healthy plant growth there than they can ever 

 be in the living-room that one's chances of 

 success with a wide range of plants are greatly 

 increased. Such a plant-room, while in every 

 way vastly inferior to a greenhouse, will be 

 found so great an improvement on the ordinary 

 window-garden that money is well invested in 

 making it, 



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