Our homes and their adornments; . There are but few plants that will not thrivein-doors under proper conditions of light and tem-perature. A window which admits much lightby day should be selected, and as plants musthave their periods of sleep, provision should bemade for shutting off the bright glare of the lampat night. A few plants, well cared for, look betterthan a window full of plants so closely crowded as to causethem to grow spindling and turn yellow. Regarding soil, the reader is referred to other chapters inthis work; but it is well to state that the pots for windowplants should be f
Our homes and their adornments; . There are but few plants that will not thrivein-doors under proper conditions of light and tem-perature. A window which admits much lightby day should be selected, and as plants musthave their periods of sleep, provision should bemade for shutting off the bright glare of the lampat night. A few plants, well cared for, look betterthan a window full of plants so closely crowded as to causethem to grow spindling and turn yellow. Regarding soil, the reader is referred to other chapters inthis work; but it is well to state that the pots for windowplants should be filled to the depth of one or more incheswith charcoal, to assist m drainage and to keep the soil sweet. [327] 328 OUR HOMES AND THEIR ADORNMENTS. Care should be used in watering, as plants are easily drowned out. If during a gentle, warm shower the plantscan be so placed as to receive it, they will be all the betterfor it. They should generally be watered once a day witha watering-pot,—never poured on,—the water being about. the temperature of the room. The morning is, perhaps, thebest time for watering, and it never should be done whilethe sun shines upon the plants. Plants that have flowered all the summer cannot be ex-pected to continue the process during the winter, as theymust have a period of rest before they can mature. Those WINDOW GARDENING. 329 which are wanted for flowering in winter, must be startedlate in the summer from seeds or cuttings, or if started earlierthey must be set away or laid down till autumn. Thebulbous plants for winter use should be laid down in theshade in May, and given no water till September, whenthey may be repotted, and will become active in a fewweeks. Cuttings for winter may be potted in roses, geraniums, fuchsias, heliotropes, callas, be-
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