. House plants and their care; also, hints for the care of goldfish and canary birds .. . to protect your carpet. Ifthe evaporation from the moss and sand does not furnishsufficient moisture to the air of the room, to keep the plantsin a fresh and vigorous state, some means must be adopted toincrease it. If you have a stove, keep a vessel of water onit; if a furnace or open grate, a shallow dish of wet moss orsponges placed under the fern-stand will answer the is the winter treatment. When the warm weathercomes, your plants want more of the outside air, thewindows must be opened,
. House plants and their care; also, hints for the care of goldfish and canary birds .. . to protect your carpet. Ifthe evaporation from the moss and sand does not furnishsufficient moisture to the air of the room, to keep the plantsin a fresh and vigorous state, some means must be adopted toincrease it. If you have a stove, keep a vessel of water onit; if a furnace or open grate, a shallow dish of wet moss orsponges placed under the fern-stand will answer the is the winter treatment. When the warm weathercomes, your plants want more of the outside air, thewindows must be opened, more or less, and later some ofthe more robust ones will do well altogether out of doors inthe shade. But if you put any of the more delicate onesout, let it be in a position where they will be protected from OipeiPiatl fbs^ai 6@r 187 and 189 West Fourth Street. Telephone Call 65. Greenhouses, College Hill. CHOICE CUT FLOWERS. Floral designs for all occasions always on hand,or made to order at short notice. Hyncinlhs, Tulips, yarclsstts & LiUes. W. H. McKINNEY, Manager, — 85 —. Pandamis jav. winds and beating rains. I think it best to keep them in aroom where the windows can be closed in case of storms, forthe wind breaks the delicate fronds, the rain beats themdown, and night-prowling cats are very destructive. Be- I^?f^ eieiiG ExiPLES eF sets ^^•Ti^he -t- Diriing-I^ooni, •^- -^1he -t- Library, IN THE MOST FASHIONABLE WOODS, NEWEST DESIGNS,HIGHEST FINISH and ENDURING WORKMANSHIP. 17&19 WEST FIFTH ST., — 37 — sides, in the house it is much easier to guard them againstthe ravages of grasshoppers, caterpillars, bugs and otherenemies. Do not sprinkle the fronds every time you givethe plants water, but only often enough to keep them cleanand free from dust. It would also be a good plan to have apost at each corner of your fern-stand, or some other ar-rangement by which the plants could be covered with a liglitsheet while sweeping and dust
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