GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
BOOKS FOR THE INDOOR GARDENER 
However successful you are with your window 
gardening, you are sure to enjoy knowing what 
other people have learned and written on the sub- 
ject, and a number of simple, interesting books are 
available. Your librarian will be glad to point out 
the best she has to offer, and there are several you 
may want to own. ‘‘Manual of Gardening,’’ by 
L. H. Bailey, formerly Dean of the Agricultural 
College at Cornell University, is one of the most 
comprehensive, covering every phase of gardening, 
summer and winter, indoors and out; ‘‘The Flower 
Garden,’’ by Ida D. Bennett, devotes considerable 
space to house plants, window gardens, hot beds, 
ete. ; ‘‘Green House and Window Plants,’’ by Chas. 
Collins, is a little book by an English authority, 
and goes quite fully into soils, methods of propagat- 
ing, management of green houses, and also the 
growing of house plants; ‘‘ Practical Horticulture,’’ 
by our own Peter Henderson, while especially val- 
uable to the large commercial grower, contains 
much interesting information for the amateur; 
‘‘House Plants and How to Grow Them,’’ by P. T. 
Barnes, however, is one of the simplest and best, 
and sure to suit the busy school-girl, in a hurry to 
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