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HOUSE PLANTS 



dignity of a small greenhouse; and in a 

 great many respects will serve the same 

 purpose, as for raising seeds of plants to be 

 put out in the garden later, whether these 

 be flowering plants or vegetables. 



A PIAZZA CONSERVATORY 



I know of one instance where a ten-foot- 

 square corner of a piazza was brought into 

 service by enclosing it with glass so that 

 it might have been surely called a piazza 

 conservatory. Its owner preferred to refer 

 to it merely as a "glass house" on account 

 of its small dimensions, but I venture to 

 say that this small place gave more pleasure, 

 and perhaps more flowers, to its owner 

 than some other real greenhouses on a much 

 more elaborate scale. Besides the flowers, 

 the glass house is big enough to hold com- 

 fortably a wicker armchair and a teastand. 

 The house is built on one corner of the 

 porch, and gets the early morning sun 

 from the east, and the south and west sun 

 later in the day. 



The first year a small coal stove was 

 installed in one corner, and the temperature 

 varied from tropical to arctic in a startling 



