XVI. PLANT ROOMS 



HILE plants can be 

 grown with great satis- 

 faction in the ordinary 

 Hving-room if one is 

 wiUing to give them the 

 proper amount of care 

 and attention, it is quite 

 true that they can be grown much more satis- 

 factorily in rooms where the air and tem- 

 perature are under better control. In the 

 living-room we have to compromise between 

 the plants we grow and its human occupants, 

 but where our plants can have a room all 

 their own, matters can be regulated to suit 

 their requirements, and many of the draw- 

 backs which operate against plants in the 

 living-room can be avoided altogether. Under 

 such conditions it is possible to grow many 

 kinds of plants to a degree of perfection im- 

 possible to attain in the ordinary dweUing. 



Real greenhouses, even if small, are con- 

 siderably expensive, and it is often difficult, 

 if not impossible, to add them to a dwelling in 



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