I. SOIL FOR POT PLANTS 



ANY persons who love 

 flowers have been pre- 

 vented from attempting 

 the culture of plants in 

 the house because they 

 have felt themselves un- 

 able to satisfactorily de- 

 cide the question of soil. They have been told 

 that each kind of plant adapted to culture in- 

 doors requires a soil of peculiar make-up, and 

 that it cannot be grown well unless just the 

 kind of soil it prefers is given; in other words, 

 that plants are so arbitrary in their demands 

 that they must have everything to suit them or 

 they will sulkily refuse to respond to their 

 owner's kindness. This is a mistake, as every 

 amateur floriculturist will find out after a little. 

 Most plants, like many persons, will endeavor 

 to adapt themselves to conditions not entirely 

 satisfactory, or to their liking, if their owner 

 is willing to do all he or she can to remove 

 obstacles in the way, which is only another 



way of saying that they will meet you half- 



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