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long be a glass gardener before discovering a 

 greater joy than even your finest cut flowers 

 can give, and that is the growing of plants to 

 take into the house, alive and laughing, to bring 

 sunshine into your winter-beleaguered rooms. 

 Cut flowers, within the limitations of "the 

 trade," any one may obtain in abundance; but 

 to have your own plants gathering up the golden 

 sunshine, to save and store it, and then scatter it 

 again through your living rooms, bedrooms, and 

 all over the house, that is something you may 

 attain to only with a glass garden of your 

 own. 



The plants that may be grown for your pleas- 

 ure in this way are so numerous that I cannot 

 attempt here even to catalogue them. Some of 

 these I mentioned in an early chapter when 

 telling the things I did with my own first little 

 house. Let me urge you, however, not to be 

 afraid to try the good old homey things. 



Geraniums. — Have you any idea of the won- 

 derful shades and colors there are in the dozens 

 of varieties available — or do you know them 

 merely as "red," "pink," and "white." Get 

 half a dozen Marquise de Castellaine, with its 

 enormous brick-red trusses on stems eighteen 

 inches long, and stiff as a goldenrod. Then 

 there are delicate pinks and lavenders. And do 



