. Milady's house plants, the complete instructor and guide to success with flowers and plants in the home, including a remarkable chapter on the ideal sun parlor. House plants. Sun Parlors as Plant Rooms 169 are an anomaly in a conservatory and cannot be in- troduced with good taste, except the room is primarily a parlor or breakfast room and the plants of minor consideration. Cautionary It may be well in closing to warn against the com- mon error of cluttering up the room with half-dead and unsightly plants. This condition is quickly brought about by unduly crowding the healthy plants in the
. Milady's house plants, the complete instructor and guide to success with flowers and plants in the home, including a remarkable chapter on the ideal sun parlor. House plants. Sun Parlors as Plant Rooms 169 are an anomaly in a conservatory and cannot be in- troduced with good taste, except the room is primarily a parlor or breakfast room and the plants of minor consideration. Cautionary It may be well in closing to warn against the com- mon error of cluttering up the room with half-dead and unsightly plants. This condition is quickly brought about by unduly crowding the healthy plants in the first place and can only be remedied by a courageous thinning out process from time to time as the stock accumulates. If aphis or kindred insects make their appearance, fumigation with tobacco should be applied imme- diately; in fact, most florists fumigate their green- houses once a week without waiting for the appearance of these pests. Paper saturated with nicotine is put up in convenient form for this purpose and may be obtained of any seed store and of most florists. The process is simple and very interesting and is entirely harmless to anything except the insects. Instructions as to using this can be obtained at time of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Palmer, Frederick E. New York, A. T. De La Mare company, inc.
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