THE COUNTRY HOME [CHAPTER 
Here are geraniums, with a Virginia Coxe rose, a 
couple of Chinese primroses, and nasturtiums 
galore. I think this plan of scattering plants about 
the house is on the whole preferable for most homes 
in the country. 
But my special delight is in fruit-bearing plants. 
It is just as easy to grow a dwarf orange, with its 
delicious perfume and its golden fruit, the guava, 
with its sweet flowers and abundant fruit, as it is to 
grow flower-bearing plants. ‘The American Won- 
der Lemon is, all in all, the most perfect pot plant 
that I have ever grown. It is loaded constantly 
with flowers, twice as large as orange-blossoms, and 
the lemon itself is larger than any Florida orange — 
while its quality is perfect. A lemon may be seen 
growing on a tree two feet high, and weighing from 
one to two pounds. Dwarf peaches may be grown 
with equal ease in acool, light room, if the trees are 
given an annual rest. I recommend my readers 
to try growing in pots fruit-bearing as well as flower- 
bearing plants. 
So you see I have practically given up the idea of 
a conservatory; and as for a greenhouse, it is even 
less advisable for the majority of our country houses. 
I have seen them tried repeatedly; but in nearly all 
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