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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, cold-frame and small greenhouse
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye), 1884-
Subjects: House plants Cold-frames Greenhouses
Publisher: New York, McBride, Nast & Company
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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ne-like habit, bearingflowers, white and light pink, which greatly resem-ble sweet peas. The foliage is unusual and verypretty. It should be trained up to stakes or othersupports and cut back quite severely after flowering. Sweet Olive (Olea fragrans)—This is still an-other fragrant flowering shrub and one of the veryeasiest to grow. 8o GARDENING INDOORS AND UNDER GLASS The house shrubs, having harder stems andtougher leaves than other classes of plants, will standmany hardships that to the latter would prove fatal.They are, however, particularly susceptible to at-tacks of red spider and scale. Keep your shrubsclean. If you do not, in spite of their seemingimmunity to harm, you will have no success withthem. Syringing, showering, washing, sprayingwith insecticides, even giving a next-to-freezing rest,— all the remedies mentioned in Chapter XVII onInsects and Diseases — may at times have to be re-sorted to. But, at whatever trouble, if you wantthem at all, keep your shrubs clean.
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Baby rambler rose. Few varieties of rose will stand the dry air anddust that oppress most house plants

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