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the necessary humidity. The soil that suits this plant 
best is one of strong loam, made friable with coarse 
sand, and well enriched with old, rotton cow manure. 
See that drainage is good and use a good deal of water 
while the plant is growing. Do not separate the 
plants, but allow them to grow on together until you 
have a mass that entirely fills the pot or tub. The 
red spider will do great harm if not kept down by 
frequent showering. Be sure that moisture gets to 
the lower side of the foliage, where this pest lurks. 
The flowers of the Eucharis are as fragrant as they 
are beautiful. They are borne in clusters of three 
to five, on stalks thrown well above the foliage. 
Few flowers are of a purer white, or a daintier 
case. The essentials of a really good plant-room 
are, plenty of light, warmth enough to keep out 
frost, and an ability to keep the atmosphere moist. 
Such a room can he built for a small amount of 
money, and in it you can grow just as fine plants as 
the millionaire grows in his house that cost thousands 
of dollars. I know this, because my first plant-room 
was simply an enclosed veranda, with a glass roof. 
I have never seen finer plants than I grew there. 
I had sash made to fit the spaces between the posts. 
I had the old shingle roof removed, and one of glass 
substituted. Ample provision was made for ventila¬ 
tion, both at the sides, and overhead. Glass doors 
were hung between it and the living-room, and this 
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texture. Their peculiar form is faithfully shown in 
the illustration. 
Those who grow flowers in the living-room have 
to fight against many difficulties, and these diffi¬ 
culties are not always overcome. How often have 
I heard flower-loving people say: “Sometime I 
mean to have a place expressly for plants. Not a 
big greenhouse, for f haven’t time to care for a great 
number of plants, hut a room where a few of the 
best can he grown as f’d like to grow them. ” 
Most of these persons labor under the impression 
that a “place expressly for plants” will cost so much 
that they cannot afford it. They know that most 
greenhouses are expensive structures, and from this 
they argue that almost any kind of a plant-room 
must be beyond their reach. But such is not the 
enabled me to keep the atmosphere in it at any 
desired degree of moisture. I could shower my 
plants whenever they needed it without incon¬ 
veniencing anybody, or doing harm to curtains or 
carpet. The plants were no more delighted with it 
than I was. Red spider was a thing unknown, and 
the aphis had no more terrors for me, for a little 
tobacco smoke put an end to his mischief. I do not 
believe anyone ever got more pleasure out of a great 
conservatory than 1 got out of that eight-hy-twelve 
room, f heated it in winter by an oil-stove, on which 
1 kept a pail of water to give off moisture to counter¬ 
act the dryness which such a stove imparts to the 
atmosphere. On very cold nights, when I feared 
the stove lacked power to keep out frost, the doors 
between the plant-room and the living-room were 
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