ation of Boston Fern by division 100

A variety of the Fan Palm (_Phoenix Roebelenii_) 101

Weddell's Palm 101

A pan of forced crocuses 116

Victory gladiolus 117

A second story window-box 128

Iceland poppies and trailing vines in a window-box 128

A movable plant table 129

Inside a small greenhouse 148

A small lean-to greenhouse 149

A three-sash coldframe 164

The simplest type of window greenhouse 165

Tomatoes in the greenhouse 196

Cucumbers and lettuce in the greenhouse 197

GARDENING

INDOORS

AND UNDER GLASS

Part One--Plants in the House

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

To-day the garden is in the zenith of its glory. The geraniums and
salvias blaze in the autumn sun; the begonias have grown to a small
forest of beautiful foliage and bloom; the heliotropes have become
almost little trees, and load the air with their delicate fragrance.
To-night--who knows?--grim winter may fling the first fleet-winged
detachment of his advance across the land, by every roadside and into
every garden-close; and to-morrow there will be but blackening ruins and
burned bivouacs where the thousand camps of summer planted their green
and purple in the golden haze.

And what provision, when that inevitable day of summer's defeat comes,
have you made for saving part of the beauty and joy of your garden, of
carrying some rescued plants into the safe stronghold of your house,
like minstrels to make merry and cheer the clouded days until the long
siege is over, and spring, rejuvenescent, comes to rout the snows?

I do not know which is the more commonly overlooked, the importance and
fun of keeping the living-rooms of the house cheerful with plants and
flowers in winter, or the certainty and economy with which it may be
done if one will use the plain common-sense methods necessary to make
plants succeed. Too much care and coddling is just