WATERING PLANTS INdOORS 



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to dry out well every once in awhile is wrong. The plants suflFer 

 every time you do it; you stunt their growth. Plants which have 

 been grown under glass in pots or in a shallow bench with artificial 

 watering are different from 

 those in the open field and 

 can't stand a dry soil with- 

 out showing bad effects. 

 On the other hand, if you 

 have poor drainage and 

 the water you apply re- 

 mains in the soil too long, 

 you will get the same bad 

 effects. 



Take a Boston Fern. 

 No plant loves water more 

 and as long as you have 

 plenty of drainage in the 

 pot it can stand watering 

 practically every day. But 

 in a sour soil resulting 

 from improper drainage, it 

 will soon go. And this 

 really holds good with all 

 other plants. 



No man who does just 

 a Uttle thinking for him- 

 self wiU use the hose on a 

 seed flat or pan or on smaU 

 dehcate seedUngs. It is 

 being done, of course, in 

 some places, but the gar- 

 dener who uses the water 

 ing can is very apt to have 

 better success. There are 

 men who can hit a Gloxinia 

 plant every time with the 

 hose when ten feet away, 

 but it won't be a Gloxinia 

 long. With a little judg- 

 ment and common sense, 

 the man who wants to do 



the right thing for his ^ 32._VEr,TiLATioN Helps. What we expect 



plants won t be long m f jom a ventUating apparatus is that it will open 



finding out how best to all the ventilators evenly and with ease, and 



i rjM. u -11 when thev are closed, hold them tightly in 



water. The man who wiU ™ ^f4 ^^p^ g^owii does these thhigs and 



keep his elbow tight a- is considered one of the best on the market 



