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House plants are popular additions to many rooms. Growing hanging house plants in your home is fun. They provide a large amount of visual interest to any corner or window space. The proper regulation of the atmosphere as to moisture and temperature is one of the most important points to be observed in house plants, or window-garden.

Plants will not flourish, bloom, and be healthy, in a dry, dusty atmosphere, even though they are given the best of care; so it is that those who attempt to raise plants in their house have little success. There is an immense contrast between the atmosphere of a well regulated green-house and that of ordinary living areas.

In the green-house, the atmosphere is moist and well-tempered to the healthful growth of plants; while that of the living-room is invariably dry and dusty, and plants will not flourish in it as they would in the conservatory.

All plants will not flourish in the common temperature of a living-room; some require a low temperature, and others need a warmer one. The following plants do better when temperatures are from 70° to 80° in the day-time, and 55° to 60° at night Begonias, Coleuses, Calceolarias, Bouvardias, Ferns (tropical), Hibiscuses, Poinsettias, Tuberoses, Heliotropes, Crotons, Hoyas, Cactuses, all kinds, Caladiums, Cannas, Palms, Orange and Lemon Trees, Geraniums, etc.

The following will do well in an atmosphere ranging from 50° to 60° by day, and 40° to 45° by night: Camellias, Azaleas, Oleanders, Roses, Carnations, Callas, Ivies,

Abutilons, Jessamines, Holland-bulbs, Lily-of-the-Valley, Primroses, Violets, Verbenas, Chrysanthemums, etc. Plants will flourish better in the kitchen, where the steam and moisture from cooking are constantly arising, and tempering the atmosphere, than in a dry living-room.

If a pan of water is set upon a heat register in a room where plants are growing, it will help to materially relieve the dryness of the atmosphere. But most all kinds of house-plants will do fairly in a uniform temperature, from 70° by day to 55° by night. Careful observation of the habits and requirements of different kinds of plants, as they come under our care, will greatly assist the gardener, and in a short time the novice will be so conversant with the various habits as to know just how to properly treat each and every house plant.

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