n6 INDOOR GARDENS 



English are a nation of collectors and hobby riders, and I feel it in 

 my bones that we shall become so. The passion for completeness is 

 in our blood. Orchids are the great favourites with English col- 

 lectors, but many people like to have a general collection. There 

 is no accounting for taste. Some people run after pitcher plants, 

 some want a hundred kinds of chrysanthemums and some yearn 

 after every variety of begonia. The greenhouse enables every one 

 who has the collecting spirit to become a world-authority, or at 

 least a local oracle on his specialty. And the crowning joy of the 

 collector is the production of new and improved varieties. No 

 matter how hardy a plant you may work with you will want a 

 greenhouse to propagate your precious seedlings. It is not impos- 

 sible that the first red daffodil will open in a $250 greenhouse and 

 even a seven by nine feet structure is large enough for a reason- 

 ably complete collection of amaryllis those gorgeous plants 

 shown on plate 52. 



