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

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.