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Gardening Under Glass 



Have a Living-room Plant Room 



Of course, the ideal way to use these plants is 

 to have a conservatory. Not the old-fashioned 

 kind with a shaded roof and a few rare plants, 



which have to be 

 looked after about as 

 carefully as goldfish, 

 and kept mostly to 

 show visitors on rare 

 occasions; but a 

 general living-room 

 plant room flooded 

 with sunlight; happy 

 with flowers in 

 bloom ; and made de- 

 lightful with the ever- 

 green things which 

 have been made to 

 look and to feel at 

 home there. A real 

 plant room is really 

 a part of the house, where you will find a cozy 

 table, magazines, and comfortable chairs; a pipe 

 bowl mayhap — a place to live in with living 

 plants. Some plants may be kept in a conserva- 

 tory of this kind alone ; but if a glass garden is at 

 hand to keep up the supply of plants through the 



Have a living-room plant room! 

 A sunny spot where you can enjoy 

 your plants and your reading or 

 sewing at the same time. 



