Notice how well furnished this house is. due largely to the nasturtiums on the 

 roof. The primroses have given continuous bloom for more than six months 





Some of the flowering plants giving color here are Transvaal daisy, cycla- 

 men, azalea, daffodil, tulips, vinca. Photograph made in April 



Making Pictures in the Greenhouse — By Arthur G. Eldredge, l 



HERE IS AMPLE PROOF THAT THE GREENHOUSE NEED NOT BE INARTISTIC — A FEW PICTORIAL SUGGESTIONS 

 THAT SHOW SOMETHING BETTER THAN THE COMMON RUN OF THINGS, BUT QUITE EASY TO ATTAIN 



SOME people have a cer- 

 tain prejudice against 

 a greenhouse because, 

 as they say, its con- 

 tents do not make pictures. 

 The facts are, however, that 

 greenhouse interiors may be 

 made charmingly decorative 

 with but a little skill and 

 care. We are just beginning 

 to understand the decorative 

 possibilities of gardening un- 

 der glass and the accompany- 

 ing pictures show some things 

 accomplished. In the green- 

 houses of the Chicago Park 

 Department, Mr. Jens Jensen 

 worked wonders in producing 

 landscapes under glass, as de- 

 scribed and pictured in Coun- 

 try Life in America for Decem- 

 ber 15,1911. But such effects 

 are too expensive for the aver- 

 age individual. It is by ap- 

 plying the same principles of 

 concealing the structural lines 

 and producing naturalistic 

 effects that the small home 

 owner may hope to have a 

 real garden the year round — 

 and at a cost not much greater 



A miniature water garden is made by means of a tub in which are the lesser 

 aquatics and goldfish, always a source of interest. 



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than that of the ordinary 

 greenhouse equipment. 



The more universal under- 

 standing and application of 

 the principles of landscape 

 art is finding many new oppor- 

 tunities in the designing of 

 greenhouse interiors. It is a 

 new field but little explored 

 and offering more opportunity 

 for individual treatment than 

 most people realize. 



In the old time "propagat- 

 ing" type with its uniformity 

 and never varying bench line, 

 there was little to excite in- 

 terest or stimulate imagina- 

 tion. Having a greenhouse 

 attached to a dwelling house 

 until lately consisted chiefly 

 in having an array of large 

 palms, . dracenas, crotons, a 

 large rubber plant, oranges or 

 lemons, and some few tropical 

 curiosities. This is being im- 

 proved upon until the glass- 

 house becomes an integral 

 part of the living-room and 

 home life. Modern improved 

 metal construction lends itself 

 to architectural manipulation, 



