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first made their acquaintance. Try, if possible, there- 

 fore to give your plants cool dark quarters during the 

 night, for on this greatly depends your success as a 

 window gardener. Window gardening at hest is plant 

 growing under dif&culties ; the more therefore you can 

 assimilate their existence to the life of the same plants 

 ia their natural homes the more successful you will 

 be. 



Gas has a most poisonous effect on plants in a room. 

 In fact no plant can live or thrive in a room where gas 

 is burned. Then it is a necessity to remove them from 

 the room during night and place them where they will 

 not breathe the poisonous gas. A passage or lobby is 

 a very suitable place till morning, provided there is no 

 danger of frost in the winter. 



Plants growing in a room require a good deal of 

 shifting about. You should never allow yourself to 

 consider this a trouble. The poor plants have life 

 within them and they appreciate in their own dumb 

 way all attentive kindnesses bestowed on them ; a lover 

 of flowers will understand this plainly, who sees in his 

 plants so many little beings depending upon him or 

 her for their very existence. Be careful and kind to 

 your plants and they will do their very best to please 

 and reward you. 



