CHAPTER V. 



PROPEK TREATMENT. CONTINUED. 



HEAT, LIGHT, AND AIR. PROTECTION AND RESCUE. INSECTS. 

 INANIMATE DUST. WORMS. DISEASE AND DECLINE. FROZEN 

 PLANTS. 



you, in the pause of the letters, made 

 an y P r g ress m mastering the problem of the 

 rain ? If so, I congratulate you ; for a difficult 

 problem it is, and well worth the mastering. 

 The rain, however, is only one part of the 

 weather, outside or inside. For our plants we 

 are quite as much concerned in regarding, and to a con- 

 siderable extent adjusting, the conditions of 



HEAT, LIGHT, AND AIR. 



In the arrangements of "the New Eden," we have al- 

 ready made provision for sufficient heat and ventilation, 

 and for all the light possible, giving special attention to 

 the place and its accommodations ; so we now have to 

 consider only the questions of their use in the proper 

 treatment of the plants. 



1. Very tender plants like the Coleuses and Begonias 

 should be brought into the house early in the autumn, as 

 soon as the nights begin to be somewhat chilly, and after- 

 ward the more hardy. All alike should have the oppor- 

 tunity of becoming gradually accustomed to their new 

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