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Title: Gardening Indoors and Under Glass
A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation
of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management
of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse

Author: F. F. Rockwell

Release Date: September 1, 2007 [EBook #22484]

Language: English

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GARDENING
INDOORS AND
UNDER GLASS

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO THE PLANTING,
CARE AND PROPAGATION OF HOUSE
PLANTS, AND TO THE CONSTRUCTION
AND MANAGEMENT OF HOTBED,
COLDFRAME AND SMALL GREENHOUSE

BY
F. F. ROCKWELL
Author of _Home Vegetable Gardening_

NEW YORK
McBRIDE, NAST & COMPANY
1912

Copyright, 1911, 1912, by
McBride, Nast & Co.

Published September, 1912

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[Illustration: Too few people realize the possibilities for enjoyment in
prolonging the garden through the winter months indoors]

FOREWORD

There is nothing which adds so much sunshine and cheer to the rooms of a
house besieged by winter and all his dreary encampment of snow and ice,
as the greenery, color and fragrance of blossoming plants. There is no
pastime quite so full of pleasure and constant interest as this sort of
horticulture; the rooting of small slips, the repotting and watering and
watching, as new growth develops, and buds unfold. Some have the magic
gift, that everything they touch will break into blossom; others
strive--perhaps too hard--only to gain indifferent results. It is hoped
that this book will aid those of the second class to locate past
mistakes and progress to future success; and further that it may
indicate to those more fortunate ones of the first class the way to more
extensive achievements in the work they love.

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