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Show THE WINDOW GARDEN It Is a Charming- Adjunct to a Pleasant Pleas-ant House. The garden activity which ha been manl- j fested out of dooi I all summer w ill now be transferred te the window garden within doors No true flower lover will remain without lhl Charming adlunct to the pleasant house It I will give as much pleasure a th outdoor , garden perhaps more, fr all sorts of flowers 1 and plants bloom In the summer, and the rarer , blooms of tne indoor garden are the more beautiful beau-tiful bec-vuse of their scarcity. Moreover the Indoor plants grow and bloom directly under the eye: they form part of the Inhabitants of the house, and are genuine eompanlonu, carefully care-fully grown by hand and nurtured by dally attention at-tention I.lk .he outdoor garden, the window garden can b( conducted on various pcaK-a The beginner be-ginner In such matters will do well to keep along the blmplest lines possible, Mony an-Mials an-Mials can bo successfully grown within doors, and will yield charming notes of color with comparatively small efforts A ft H Simple, homely plants, while not giving all the reSUlta thut might be deulred, will add Immensely to the Interest of the home Interior and will give welcome notes of color of great beauty. Decorative house plants, os th. y are technically tech-nically called by the florists constitute another class of winter plant? Itulr beauty la of thinnest thi-nnest sort because only cspeclall) beautiful plants aro grown for this purpose. ThSlf attractiveness at-tractiveness Is also Immonae, and when they can be afforded they form tho handsomest of all house decorations Many of these plants can be grown from seed, but If room enn bo had for but two or three It will be found wiser i-conomv ln the end to purchase growing plants from rcputoble dealr. The seedlings do not alwas "mature well In home culture, und the plants often require more attention than the amateur la competent to fit I The window gor.len Deeds, therefore, considerable con-siderable attention St the very outset. If one has had no experience whatever it will be safest to begin In tho smallest way with plants of known habits of growth and of .a . cultivation Indoor conditions vary gre.it- l Borne plants Will thrive with a night temperature tem-perature of SO decreca, others with a temperature tempera-ture of CO degrees, the day temperature In both casts easily averaging from 10 to 1J degrees de-grees hlgh'r One must know and understand these temperature conditions and their relations rela-tions to the plant? before embarking In a win dow ardn for which success Is derlred American Homes and ."urd.-n. |