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THE INDOOR GARDEN 



THE choice of plants for the indoor 

 garden is dependent upon many- 

 things. There are house plants 

 which require a high temperature, others which 

 thrive better with less heat, plants which re- 

 quire an abundance of direct sunlight and 

 which wiU not flourish a day without it, and 

 other plants which do very nicely under less 

 exacting conditions. Recently a revival of in- 

 terest has been shown in indoor gardening. 

 The old-fashioned plan of filling a window so 

 full of plants that the glass was almost com- 

 pletely hidden by them has long since passed 

 away. Surely with indoor gardens, as with 

 everything else, a sense of disproportion is not 

 a thing to be desired, or, in these days of an 

 advanced knowledge of things artistic, to be 

 tolerated. Nothing could be more out of 



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