Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1874 — Care of House Plants in Cold Weather. [ARTICLE]

Care of House Plants in Cold Weather.

House plants require a vast amount of care every day and from week to week. They need especially to be guarded against exposure to sudden changes of temperature. Where a number of pots with flowers are placed near a window, during a cold or cloudy day, unless the temperature of the apartment is properly maintained the flowers will be seriously injured by the cold. In a cold day, unless the sun shines brightly on the flowers, or at night, unless the batten shutters of the window are closed, no .colder place can be found in the apartment than close to a large window. Many florists seem to forget their flowers during cold nights, leaving them near the window, where they are liable to become severely chilled. The best plgce for flowers during a cold day or night is on a high table near the middle of a large room. The higher thetable the better for the flowers. For this purpose a large table on castors should be provided, so that a portion or all the pots can readily be rolled to the middle of the apartment. All plants are invigorated and rendered more luxuriant by exposure to the-full influences of the noonday sun. Yet, on cloudy and windy days, it will be quite as well to keep them Dear the center of the room, away from a cold window. If any one doubts that a foot or two from a window is the coldest place in the room, let him place a thermometer a few inches from the glass for half an hour and then transfer it to the middle of

the room, and he will perceive that the instrument will indicate a marked Variation of temperature. Plants in pots are frequently placed outside of a window during a cold yet sunshiny day. But such exposure injures the stems and leaves far more than we are wont to suppose.—N. Y. Herald.