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to the size of the pot. Soot from soft coal also 

 makes a good fertilizer. Mix at the rate of 

 one-half pint to ten gallons of water. 



All these suggestions are practical if not al- 

 luring and, if we are to have success with an 

 indoor window garden, we must give considera- 

 tion to them as well as to the more esthetic qual- 

 ities which the plants themselves supply. The 

 latter depend upon the former, for no sickly 

 plant can be beautiful. However, we are done 

 with them and can turn now to a discussion of 

 what to raise in the indo.or garden and how to 

 raise it. 



SELECTION OF PLANTS 



Begin with bulbs. These bloom most suc- 

 cessfully for the amateur and, by potting them 

 in quantity and selecting different varieties, 

 a succession of bloom may be maintained in the 

 indoor garden from Christmas to early spring. 

 Narcissi, tulips, hyacinths, crocus, scilla, free- 

 sias — these and many others may be had in 

 bloom to make every week gay with their cojors 

 and sweet with their fragrance from mid-De- 

 cember to late March. 



Bulbs should be potted early in the autumn. 

 All require practically the same treatment as 



