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for the sunshine Is the life. In addition, just 

 because the winter and spring sun may 

 sometimes be too energetic for plants at 

 rest, there should be some arrangement of 

 adjustable shades to screen the excessive 

 light which might be injurious to some 

 of the younger growths in the early days of 

 spring. Plants that have been kept in 

 dark corners of dwelling rooms — such as 

 palms or ferns — when brought into the 

 window garden to resuscitate, will be thank- 

 ful for such careful protection while the 

 sun is at its hottest. Many ingenious de- 

 vices have been thought out by amateur 

 gardeners to meet the requirements and to 

 provide the necessary best available con- 

 ditions for their pets, and surely if one is 

 about to indulge in window gardening 

 on anything like an extensive scale, it is 

 the part of wisdom to make a good begin- 

 ning by giving them the best chance possible 

 for a comfortable life. 



It is often not at all difficult to build a 

 small extension outside a window for the 

 accommodation of house plants, and a 

 little addition like this, on a slightly more 

 pretentious scale, very easily approaches the 



