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room with long, sunny windows is sometimes used instead, 
and a very pretty greenhouse or window garden of this de¬ 
scription may have an abundance of climbing or trailing 
plants in it, supported on light trellis work, growing from 
boxes on brackets. 
The climbers may be lophospermum, Japanese wood¬ 
bine, Madeira yine, tradescantha, and iyies of all kinds, 
while yincas and the loyely little Kenilworth iyy droop and 
trail. With the windows and walls festooned with yines, 
they form an effective background for such bloomers as 
geraniums, carnations, fuchsias, petunias, bouvardias, helio¬ 
tropes, enpatorium, calla, abutilon, etc. 
A low chair, a footstool, a rug, a divan with drapery 
and floods of sunshine, make an in-door greenhouse of this 
character a most attractive-looking lounging-place. 
A home-made greenhouse that yielded a large amount 
of satisfaction is described as follows : “ We had built this 
small lean-to at the south side of the kitchen, and opened 
a door from there into it. A small office stove and the 
heat from the cooking stove have been amply sufficient to 
keep therein an even temperature, as all the chips and 
small bits of wood were used in the daytime, and a fire 
of small coal put on about five o’clock in the afternoon in 
cold weather. The consequence has been that we have had 
fine thrifty plants, and a constant succession of bloom all 
winter ; the Chinese primroses, geraniums, and others of 
that kind doing well in a cool bin at a distance from the 
'fire, while our heliotropes and calla lilies blossomed just 
above the fire, and a stand, all the length, with five rows 
of shelves, gave extra heat and light to plants that needed 
them. Roses, red, yellow, and white, the rich Marechal 
Neil and the ruddy James Sprunt, with many other sorts, 
have been a delight to us in many ways, while we have en¬ 
joyed the pleasure of giving away thirty-six bouquets dur¬ 
ing the long, dreary winter.” 
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