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NEW YORK STATE
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURf

lEPARTMENT OF FLORICULTURE

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CORNELL UNIVERSO^
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BEAUTIFYING THE WINDOW

Bv growing plants in the border outside the window, a great deal may
be done to complete the idea of the window garden effect of the potted
plants indoors



House Plants

AND HOW TO GROW THEM



BY
PARKER T. BARNES

ILLUSTRATED




Garden City New York

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.
1915



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WTO rOKEIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN



COPVKIOHT, ipop, BY DOOBLEDAY, PACE & COMPANY



PREFACE

There have been books on window gar-
dens and house plants before this, and they
have told, at length, of every kind of plant
that under some condition or other has eked
out a struggling existence in our dwellings.
The purpose of the present volume is to
discuss fully those plants which are sure to
succeed. If a selection is made from the
various kinds enumerated in the following
pages, failure is next to impossible; it can
only be brought about by carelessness and
inattention to the first principles of cul-
tivation.
