MANAGEMENT OF PLANTS IN ROOMS. 
Perhaps a few hints on the management of plants in 
rooms, may not be unacceptable to our readers. We, 
therefore, extract from Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, 
the following observations :— 
“ Hints on the general management of plants are 
attended with considerable difficulty ; every genus re¬ 
quiring some little variation, both in soil, water, and 
general treatment. If the room where the plants are 
intended to be placed, is dark and close, but few will 
ever thrive in it; if, on the contrary, it is light and airy, 
with the windows in suitable aspect to receive the 
sun, plants will do nearly as well as in a greenhouse. 
If observed to suffer, the effects may be traced to these 
causes, either want of proper light and air — injudi¬ 
cious watering — filthiness collected on the leaves — or 
being potted in unsuitable soil. 
“ 1. Want of proper light and air , is perhaps the most 
essential point of any to be considered; for, however 
well all other requisites are attended to, a deficiency 
of these will always cause the plant to grow weak and 
sickly. Let them always be placed as near the light 
as they can conveniently stand and receive as much air 
