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Title: Window gardening : devoted specially to the culture of flowers and ornamental plants for indoor use and parlor decoration
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Williams, Henry T
Subjects: Window gardening House plants
Publisher: New York : H.T. Williams
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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; but Roses, Geraniums, Heliotropes, Verbe-nas, D.iphnes, Azaleas, &c., must be near the glass, and under the direct influenceof the light, if we would have them flourish. An exposure where the sun canstrike unobstructed from its first appearance above the horizon in the morning,until one or two oclock, p. m., is much the most desirable. A southern or south-eastern window is the best, next is an eastern exposure, then a western one,and the north worst of all. At a northern one, little but Pansies and SweetViolets will grow, though CameUias delight in a cool, moist atmosphere, andwill often flourish at such a window with but little sunshine. The plants musthave all the sunshine you can bestow upon them, but at night they should bekept in the dark ; and as all plants in summer are cooler at night than in theday time, those that are grown in windows should also be cooler. This point isperhaps not as well understood as it should be, for there are persons so fearful Window gardening. n
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Rg. 14.—A Sitting Koow Wiadow. 22 WINDOW GARDENING. that their plants will become chilled, that they turn all the heat of their fur-naces upon them at night,and the gas-light joined with it, increases the irrita-tion ; so that the plants are kept in an unnatural state when they ought to beat rest, for plants need sleep and do sleep ; so the eftect of unreasonable lightand heat is very exhausting. Drop the curtains over the plants to exclude themfrom the light of the room, or pin newspapers around them during the evening.Nothing is so handy and useful in protecting them from frost as newspapers.They will frequently preserve a plant when the mercury falls nearly to free-zing point. Neither should plants be chilled. Avoid the extreme of renderingthem too cool, but maintain a good medium temperature. Rooms whose ther-mometer reaches 80 to 85° during the day, and then falls to 30 to 35° at night,will never keep plants in good health. Size of Windows. The larger the better if you want t

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