Carnations in the House.
Every year I get a number of carnation plants and I take the best of care of them, as good as I know how. At first they look well, but in a short time they begin to turn yellow at the top and the yellow keeps going down until it gets to the bottom and they are dead. Other plants do well with me. What is the trouble?
Mrs. F. P. W.
Highlandlake, Colo.
Carnations want a cool, moist air, and cannot adapt themselves to the high temperature and dry air of living rooms heated by coal in stoves or furnaces. To raise the plants one should have a conservatory off the living room, or at least an inclosed bay window.