House Plants - Margaret E Jones

The cultivation of house plants has grown enormously in popularity in recent years. This book is a short but comprehensive guide to the conditions under which they thrive, to the choosing of suitable containers and potting composts, to the use of artificial illumination, and finally to the choice of the plants themselves. There is also a chapter on window boxes, tubs, and urns, and a calendar of suitable plants to grow in these for display according to the season.

The author has personally grown and looked after many of the very fine specimens shown in the illustrations and in this book gives thoroughly practical directions. It should be equally useful to the man who wants to grow a few plants in his window and to the big firm which wants to decorate the halls and corridors of an office building or showroom with such plants. In this way it is possible to have interest throughout the year.