The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-11-23
Room Adornments for Winter.


At this season of the year the beauti-
full color of field and forest leads to q
desire for home-adornment, and the.
finely-tinted leaves are gathered and
preserved, and do excellent service in
making home attractive till the leaves
and flowers come again. But while
these relics of the past are doing good
service in their humble way, making the
dark corners glow with faint glimmer
of life, we may make the light by the
windows do us equal, If not better SER
vice, by feeding living plants and aiding
them to bear for us sweet and lovely
flowers. Vines may be trained up the
window-frames, pots may be made to
stand in brackets, and hanging baskets
let the flowing shoots hang down.
All this does not take much to do, but
people often think otherwise. and this
is why so few have nothing at all. In
deed, the choice flowers Of the conser-
vatory are often among the worst for
window-culture; and the wild weed
would be much greater success and be
more pleasing than the most valued ex-
otics from foreign land. Indeed, q
weed is not q weed only in relation TO
time and place. 1t is flower, and val
ued flower, when it come where it does
not grow naturally and where it Is de-
sired to come. There is no growth in
winter out-of-doors, and so the wild
flower growing in the windows in win
ter Is no more weed than anything
that grows There are many green
things in woods and meadows, ferns,
MOSES, vines, and so on, that would re-
main quite green only for severe frosts
and cold winds In windows this is &C.
l.
borne in mind that these naturally
hardy plants do not like much heat, and
hence they are adapted to cool rooms
only and not to warm ones. With heat
they are worthless. For such heated
rooms the more tropical pl8nts must be
used. 'so
varieties to grow, rather to suggest that
anything that comes to hand will do.
but TO offer practical word or two as
to treatment that may be of service
Air, fresh from the outside, whenever
it is not frosty, is of course an advan-
tage, as the foul air from heaters, gas
burners, and other contrivances are
more or less of an injury. The sunlight
is, of course all know, q benefit at all
times. Will this or that do well in the
shade, is often q question. Some things,
as ferns and moses, will do, but even
these like sun, if not too warm sun.
AS to watering this is the great ques-
ton with all window plant growers.
We see it stated that a we'll known hor-
ticulturist of this place, in an address
to the Horticultural Society, gave it as
his opinion that there was much more
danger from too much than too little
water to room-plants. This is our ex-
perience. If one is not quite sure from
the appearance of the earth and of the
plants. 1t is better rather to wait little
while. say for day, than to risk it In
regard to plants in baskets, however.
we should think the ideas of our horti-
cultural friend might be reversed
These we think are generally inspired
by too little than too much water. The
danger is therefore from the other side.
They often get but drop or two from
o. cup, and q basin held under the
basket to catch the drip; but besides
this a hanging basket should be dipped
in q bucket of water about once .
week.-Germastosoa Telegraph