Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1886 — Plants in the Bed-Room. [ARTICLE]

Plants in the Bed-Room.

Babyhood replies thus to a question as to the propriety of keeping plants in the children’s sleeping-room: Plants are not usually injurious in a room during the daytime. When there is sunlight the plants absorb carbonic acid and appropriate its carbon and set free a certain amount of oxygen. This process is not harmful, but rather the reverse, to animal life. The only harm that need be considered is that possibly arising from any considerable quantity of damp earth in the room, but this is probably very slight. But with the coming of darkness this process of absorption of carbonic acid ceases, and a certain amount of the gas is given off; just how much, of course, varies with the quantity and kind of plants in your greenery. The effect is in kind, if not in degree, very much the same as that of having another person sleeping in the room. If you can arrange your plants upon a stand with casters that can be rolled out of the room before sundown and brought back in the morning, the plants will probably be harmless ; otherwise they are better away.