Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. WINDOW GARDENING. Growth of Plants. —Situation and Exposure.— Heat. — Moisture. — Tom perature of Room. — Ventilation.— Washing. — Syringing. —Watering. — Choice of Pots.— Window Flower Tables. — Window Shelves.—Potting. — Manuring. — Soil. — Peat. — Loam. — Sand. — Leaf Mould. — — Manure. — Proportions of Each. — Inseets. — Green Fly. — Mcalj Bog. —Scale. —Red Spider. — Pruning. grow plants to perfection in a room is not an easy thing. To insure any degree of success, a careful and constant attention to details is necessary. These details are all little things in themselves; they seem almost trivial; but their observance is imperative, if we would have our plants in healthy foliage and profuse bloom. It is by the neglect of all, or some of these, that plants grown in rooms usually present such a diseased, unhealthy appearance. Any one of us can call to mind some friend, who, as we say, is always successful with flowers; has blossoms when no one else can, and whose plants are models of health and beauty. We laughingly say, the flowers are his friends; he knows them, and they bloom for him; and so it is, in fact; he knows their peculiarities, attends to their wants, feeds them properly, affords the requisite light and air. Is it then a wonder that for him the grateful flowers put ontheir richest dress of green, and reach out their perfumed blossoms ? But before we give rules for growing window plants, let us look at these little things, which may come under the head of general instructions. And, first, the Situation. We have decided to grow window plants, and we must now choose our window. Let it, if possible, face the east or south; that is, be one which receives the full rays of the morning sun. If we are unfortunate enough not to have such a...