CHAPTER XXIV 



THE POSSIBILITIES OF A CITY FLAT 



THE possibilities of the city flat will depend 

 upon just how much window space the flat 

 affords and how much sunlight the windows re- 

 ceive, for upon the amount of light will depend 

 not so much the quantities of flowers which may 

 be grown, as their character. 



It may be possible that, in a restricted area, but 

 one window can be devoted to the growing of 

 plants during the winter season and where that 

 is the case one will wish to realize as much pleas- 

 ure as possible from that one window. If it is 

 a sunny window then it will be an easy matter 

 to fill it full of bright flowers. Now no flower 

 so well withstands the heat and dust of our liv- 

 ing-rooms as the geraniums, but it is by no means 

 necessary that they should be of the more com- 

 mon zonal type. The Lady Washington ge- 



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