The Garden Under Glass

252 THE GARDEN UNDER GLASS The fatal faults in housing plants are : (i) Neglecting to clean the house or the plants ; (2) neglecting to clean those plants already in the house ; (3) putting clean plants into a dirty house ; (4) putting dirty plants into a clean house; (5) setting the plants unduly close; (6) not calculating the space they will require ; (7) putting in plants with broken branches, broken pots or broken labels ; (8) placing them in houses or in positions where they will have to be removed ; (9) taking them in during fine weather when they might have remained outside for several days longer; and (10) allowing too much heat and too little ventilation. THE DECORATION OF A CONSERVATORY A House of Special Display I have always had an ambition which I have never been a ble to realise, and although I doubt if many or any of my readers also will be able to realise it I would fain give it space here as an ideal. That ambition has been to have a small house—quite small—used solely for the display of plants. In this I would arrange plants which had been grown in other houses or in frames, and as far as possible I would have but one dass of plants. For instance, at one period the house would be filled with flowering carnations, at another with zonal geraniums or with border or Mal-maison carnations. A week or two might advantageously be given over to the display of cyclamen or of primulas, while at another period I would mingle cinerarias with ferns and bring back to my visitors memories of the Temple Show.