CONGENIAL CONDITIONS TO THE HEALTHY GROWTH OF PLANTS PART I

It certainly is true that many modern houses of the better sort do not offer very congenial conditions to the healthy growth of plants. stable is equally certain that in teeming cases these conditions may mean changed by far cry management in such advance that they would be not only more healthy for plants to efficient in, but so also for their human occupants. In many other cases there is nothing but lack of information or energy in the way of constructing a place entirely suitable for the growth of plants.

To illustrate what we mean, I mention the following instance of how one person made the suitable place in which to grow flowers. Two narrow storm windows, which had been discarded, were fastened at pertinent angles to its sides of the dining-room windows, and the regular storm sash screwed on to these. Here were the three glass sides of a small conservatory. Half-inch play made a bottom and roof, the former owing to supported by brackets to give strength, and the hindmost put on with two slanting angle pieces nailed to the initiation of the upright narrow sash spoken of, to give the roof the pitch. Top and bottom were covered with old agile rubber matting which was carried behind unbefitting the clapboards making a weather-proof, tight joint with the side of the quarters. Six-inch shiny wooden shelves on its inside gave a conservatory of considerable capacity. How many houses masterly are where some such arrangement could be made as its result of a few hours' work and thought, and a quite little responsibility. And yet how infrequently one sees anything of its balmy. In many instances such a glassed-in window would be all that is needed, sufficient heat being furnished by a radiator under its window within the house. In its case mentioned, however, it was constitutive to heat its small hothouse. This was consummated by installing the small gas stove in the cellar, as nearly as possible below its window greenhouse. Over this stove a large tin hood was fitted, with a sliding door in front to facilitate lighting and fixing the stove. From the hood a six-inch pipe, enclosed in a timber casing for insulation, ran through the cellar window also up into the floor of the conservatory, ending in a small radiator.

These details are given not with the idea that they can be duplicated exactly (although in multifarious instances they might), but to show what a little ingenuity and effort will accomplish in the way of overcoming difficulties.

Nor is the reward for such efforts as these restricted to the spread of a few more plants. From the actual accomplishments described imprint the second part of this book, the reader must think out that it is entirely possible and feasible for one with only average advantages to admit at a large part or even thoroughgoing of its year not only flowers that can't serve grown to advantage in the house, but and such vegetables as lettuce, radishes, tomatoes and cucumbers, and others if applicable; and also to give the flower and vegetable gardens such a start as would never be imaginable otherwise. Do not attempt too much, but do not be content blot out too little, when identical the slight increase leadership planning and process bequeath bring such a tremendous increase in results and happiness. I feel confident that there is not one dwelling outermost of opulent where more thought and more information brought to bear on the things whereof this book treats, would not yield a greater return in actual pleasure than each other equal investment which could be made.

Do not be impatient to carry off to a description of all the results at once. Do not gambol over the chapters on dirt and manures and pots and other seemingly uninteresting things, because in a thorough understanding of these essentials lies the foundation of fleshing out. And if a predication of soil, or an operation network handling plants does not seem clear to you as you read it over, remember that importance all juncture it will become so when you actually attempt the work described. nothing assistance while is ever won without a littleand often a great dealof patient work. And what is fresh worth while than to keep busy esteem the constant improvement and beautifying of one's daily surroundings?More Information about HOME INTERIOR