CHAPTER XXXVII 



SMALL GREENHOUSES 



I am glad to note that the lovers of flowers are 

 evincing a growing interest in small buildings specially 

 adapted to their culture. While it is true that fine 

 plants can be grown in the sitting room, it is equally 

 true that much finer ones can be grown in rooms 

 adapted expressly to the wants of the plants. The 

 reasons will be easily understood by those who give 

 the matter a very little thought. In such a place 

 temperature, moisture, light and shade, can be arranged 

 to suit the plants, while in the living room it is 

 impossible to govern these things to a nicety. A small 

 greenhouse will accommodate as many plants as most 

 persons who grow them for their own pleasure can 

 find time to take care of, while in the sitting room 

 or parlor the number grown must necessarily 

 be limited. In a greenhouse a much greater variety 

 can be grown, for plants will flourish there which 

 would die if taken into the living room. Some of our 

 finest plants, therefore, have to be neglected by the 

 owner of a window garden because he knows that it 

 would be useless to try to grow them under conditions 

 which prevail there. 



A great many persons labor under the impression 

 that even a small greenhouse is very expensive. Such 

 is not the case, however, if a plain house is built, and 

 such a house will enable you to grow just as fine plants 

 as the most elaborate structure. Material of ordinary 

 quality can be used, and much of the work can be 

 done by any person who is at all handy with tools. 



But while it is true that a small house can be 

 built for much less money than most persons imagine 



