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HO USE & GARDEN 
The Garden In The Home 
The Conservatory is one of the greatest joys of the country 
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with the comforts of “indoors.” There you may have the 
year ’round companionship with plants and flowers which 
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When the Garden Comes Indoors 
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By the end of summer the average geranium has grown to about 
the proportions shown above. Before potting , cut back to the 
main stalks as shoivn below 
This, of course, adds to the 
pleasure of winter garden¬ 
ing the charm of “collecting.” 
It has the further advantage 
of making you familiar with 
the requirements and the 
habits of growth of a large 
number of plants—informa¬ 
tion which will be of great 
value to you in your out-of- 
door gardening later on. 
Unthinkable Varieties 
Even though it is impos¬ 
sible for you to make con¬ 
ditions as favorable as you 
would like, do not feel that 
you must forego the pleas¬ 
ure of winter gardening al¬ 
together. There are a num¬ 
ber of extremely tough and 
hardy plants which will sur¬ 
vive a very great deal in the 
way of unfavorable environ¬ 
ment; many of the cacti for instance, 
and these you can hardly kill even if 
you intentionally tried to. They are of 
various forms and colors and tre¬ 
mendously interesting in habits as 
well as appearance. There is not 
space enough to give a long list of 
them here, but among those most 
useful for house culture are the epi- 
phylum s or “crab” cacti and the phyl- 
locactus varieties, of which P. Acker- 
manni is the best. Among other par¬ 
ticularly hardy house plants are 
aspidistra with slender long leaves of 
remarkable toughness; the popular 
rubber plants ( Ficus elastica and F. 
pandnrata) , which, despite their stiff¬ 
ness and formality, have many good 
points to recommend them. Then 
there are small size dracaenas 
(Dracccna indivisa ) possessing long, 
narrow, recurved green leaves. The 
dracaenas are particularly ornamental 
and set off other plants to great ad¬ 
vantage. A few should be included 
in every general collection. That 
popular old favorite, the “leopard” 
plant (Farfugium grande) with hand¬ 
some dark green, yellow mottled 
leaves needs no recommendation. 
The screw pine ( Pandanus ) is not 
so widely known. The varieties P. 
Veitchii and Sanderi are both re¬ 
markably handsome and effective 
plants for decorative purposes. 
Indoor Bulbs 
You should plan to have in your 
indoor gardening a generous supply of 
spring blossoming bulbs. These cost 
very little and may be forced readily 
under ordinary house conditions. 
The two great secrets of success in 
handling this class of plants is to buy 
good bulbs and to get a vigorous root 
growth before they are brought into 
light and heat to start the tops. 
They should be planted during the 
next few weeks in pots or bnlb pans 
in a rich, friable soil to which a little 
bone dust has been added, and then 
kept in a cool, dark cellar or covered 
2' or so deep in a trench or deep 
frame until the root growth has been 
made. They will require several 
weeks’ time, but after that a continu¬ 
ous supply of flowers can be had from 
Christmas until Easter with the slight 
trouble of bringing them in and start¬ 
ing them as directed. 
Start the Garden Now 
Possibly the mistake made more 
often than any other in connection 
with indoor gardening is that of wait¬ 
ing until the actual arrival of winter 
before making a start. As soon as 
you have determined what your fa¬ 
cilities for winter gardening really 
are, and have decided what kind of a 
garden you want to attempt, you 
should begin at once to procure your 
plants and to make ready the place 
in which you expect to keep them. 
A great many of the plants you have 
been growing outdoors during the 
summer such as begonias, geraniums, 
heliotropes, lemon verbena, petunias, 
flowering maples, snapdragons ( an¬ 
tirrhinum. f), can be removed from 
your garden for winter use, providing 
you do the moving early enough and 
do it with care. The usual method is 
to wait until a hard frost threatens 
and then lift the plant just as it is 
from the soil into a large pot, give it 
a thorough soaking, bring it indoors 
and expect it to continue to flower in¬ 
definitely with no other care except 
regular watering. After a few days 
there are signs of disastrous results; 
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