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HOUSE PLANTS 



apply some hot sand, sprinkling it on with a 

 fine-meshed sieve. 



As soon as the plants need still more room 

 prick them out singly into thumb (two-inch) 

 pots. When transplanting insert the plant- 

 let a little deeper than it was in the old bed. 



THE FATAL FROST 



All the plants named later in this chapter 

 can be grown in an ordinary window, where 

 ordinary living room conditions prevail. 

 The temperature should be from 50 degrees 

 to 55 degrees at night, and under no circum- 

 stances must the freezing point be reached. 

 The day temperature, if you can control it, 

 may be allowed to rise 10 degrees on dull 

 days and 15 degrees or 20 degrees will do 

 no harm when the sun shines. 



RED BERRIES FOR CHRISTMAS 



Nothing is easier for the ovmer of a sunny 

 window than to grow a few plants of the 

 Jerusalem cherry (Solanum Pseudo-Capsi- 

 cum\ as the spare room is needed only when 

 the weather gets warm outside. I don't 

 know of a more generally satisfactory Christ- 

 mas plant either. It is symmetrical, full of 



