198 MAKING OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



doors they may be made useful in affording a snug 

 comer to some tender shrub too large to burlap. 

 The door should be placed at an angle to shut off the 

 sun and the prevailing wiad and firmly braced in 

 position or it may cause far more damage than it 

 prevents. 



Care of house plants during winter depends so 

 largely upon the conditions under which they are to 

 be grown that only general hints will be really prac- 

 tical. When there is a conservatory, where the plants 

 can, at will, be shut away from the atmosphere of 

 the living room and given a semi-greenhouse condi- 

 tion, the matter resolves itself into a simple matter 

 of heat, moisture and proper ventilation; but where 

 one must depend upon a bay window, which is really 

 a part of the living room, or even just the ordinary 

 living room windows, then the matter becomes more 

 complicated and the wise flower lover will content 

 herself or himself with growing those plants least 

 exacting in their requirements. 



It is possible, however, so to arrange a bay window 

 of fair proportions that it becomes, in effect, a minia- 

 ture conservatory or greenhouse, and this without an 

 unreasonable outlay. The important point here is a 

 watertight floor which may be separated from the liv- 

 ing room floor, either by sinking it somewhat below 

 the level, by introducing a strip of wood in the shape 

 of a sill so that any water on the floor of the bay' 



