THE HOME 



The home greenhouse, though small in size, 

 enables us to grow decorative plants to a size 

 that makes them extremely useful in room 

 decoration. The woman who has some good- 

 sized Palms, Ficuses, Grevilleas, Aspidistras, 

 and other plants of that class is never at the 

 mercy of the weather or the florist in preparing 

 her rooms for the reception of visitors. The 

 material needed is at hand, and she takes great 

 pride in it because it is her own. Old plants 

 seem like members of the family, and with a 

 greenhouse for them to develop in they seldom 

 outgrow their quarters. Such is not the case 

 with plants growing in the living-room. By 

 the time they begin to be most enjoyable they 

 are too large for the windows, and we have to 

 discard them and begin again with small ones. 

 The list of plants that can be grown in the 

 greenhouse is a long one, while the list of those 

 which can be grown successfully in the living- 

 room is a very limited one and includes but 

 few of the plants we care most for. 



If you decide on building a greenhouse, do 

 not make the mistake of having it too small. 

 If you have had only a few plants in the win- 

 dow, a room twelve or fourteen feet square will 

 seem large enough to you to hold all the plants 



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