Excerpt from Window and Parlor Gardening: A Guide for the Selection, Propagation and Care
The practice of growing plants in windows and apartments is one of the most rational and instructive amusements that can be had.
Unfortunately this simple art is not very assiduously cultivated in this country. Few women here take the same interest in plants as do their sisters of the Old World, and those who do have as yet had no opportunity of gaining a sufficient knowledge of the subject for lack of works of instruction.
Still there is hardly a home in the whole country where plants are absolute strangers, for most people make attempts, at one time or another, to cultivate plants in their windows. That so many discouraging failures are made is not owing to climatic conditions or other natural causes, but chiefly to a bad selection of plants and a want of knowledge as to their proper treatment. Still the culture of most plants is quite simple. Give them sufficient nutriment, water, light, and heat, and they will grow and develop without much other attention.
That which so greatly tends to make a home pleasant and cheerful is, therefore, within the reach of all. There is not a laborer's wife so poor that she cannot have her windows full of flowers, if she has learned or will learn how to take proper interest in such things.
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