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Gardening Under Glass 



mentioned, there is the Swainsona with Sweet- 

 pea hke clusters of white and pink flowers and 

 attractive ferny fohage Then there is Aspara- 

 gus phimosus, the cUmbing "lace fern," not only 



delicately beautiful 

 where it grows, but 

 supplying the most 

 beautiful of all 

 "greenery" to use 

 with cut blooms. 



Sweet-peas will 

 do wonderfully under 

 glass if not given too 

 warm a temperature, 

 You may have S weet - 

 ])eas not only bloom- 

 ing in your glass gar- 

 den, but for days you 

 can have their sweet 

 fragrance right in 

 your breakfast room. 

 How? Merely by sowing the seed in, or trans- 

 planting the plants into, a long, narrow wooden 

 box four or five inches wide and six inches deep, 

 which may readily be moved. Such boxes are 

 often used to start the plants in till they can be 

 moved to a place where there can be given more 

 head room when they are about ready to begin 



The beauty of vines you can have 

 in your glass garden as well as out- 

 doors. Why not train them to 

 permanent positions, as has been 

 done here? 



