$2 Download. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass. 1912 – 266p

FOREWORD

There is nothing which adds so much sunshine

and cheer to the rooms of a house besieged by

winter and all his dreary encampment of snow and

ice, as the greenery, color and fragrance of blossom ing

plants. There is no pastime quite so full of

pleasure and constant interest as this sort of horti culture;

the rooting of small slips, the repotting and

watering and watching, as new growth develops,

and buds unfold. Some have the magic gift, that

everything they touch will break into blossom;

others strive — perhaps too hard — only to gain

indifferent results. It is hoped that this book will

aid those of the second class to locate past mistakes

and progress to future success; and further that it

may indicate to those more fortunate ones of the

first class the way to more extensive achievements in

the work they love.

This is not a technical book ; simply an attempt to

tell in so plain a way that they cannot be misunder stood

the everyday details of the successful manage ment

of plants in the house and within such small

glass structures as may be made, even with limited

means and time, a part of the average home.

There is another aspect of the case worth consid

ering; so much so in fact, that it is one of the

reasons for writing this book. By the use of such

modest glass structures as almost everyone can

afford not only is the scope of winter gardening

enlarged and the work rendered more easy and cer tain,

but the opportunity is given to make this light

labor pay for itself. Fresh vegetables out of season

are always acceptable and well grown plants find a

ready sale among one's flower-loving friends.

Cranmere, August ist, 19 12.

F. F. R.

ILLUSTRATIONS

A flourishing flower bay Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

An isolated bay-window conservatory 8

A tiled window-sill garden 9

Preparing flats for the "sub-irrigation" method of watering

28

Cuttings ready for sand 2g

Geranium cuttings ready for potting 29

Potted cuttings ready for their first shift 40

Striking Rex begonia leaf cuttings 40

"Crocking" in a flower pot 41

Seedlings ready to transplant 48

A flower bay protected with heavy curtains .... 49

Pride of Cincinnati begonia 60

Pansy geranium 61

Primrose (Primula ohconica) 61

The Silk Oak (Grevillea robusta) 72

Otaheite orange 73

Baby rambler rose 80

Araucaria excelsa 81

Screw Pine (Pandanus Veitchii) 88

Rubber plant (Ficus elastica) 89

Vines on an indoor trellis 96

Crested Scott Fern (Nephrolepis exaltata, var. Scholzeli) 97

Propagation of Boston Fern by division 100

A variety of the Fan Palm {Phoenix Roebelenii) . . loi

Weddell's Palm loi

A pan of forced crocuses 116

Victory gladiolus 117

A second story window-box 128

Iceland poppies and trailing vines in a window-box . . 128

A movable plant table 129

Inside a small greenhouse 148

A small lean-to greenhouse 149

A three-sash coldframe 164

The simplest type of window greenhouse 165

Tomatoes in the greenhouse 196

Cucumbers and lettuce in the greenhouse 197