Feb, 1—A glass-enclosed verandah, facing south, may not be one of the best places in the house to rest in during the Summer; but it is a most useful place during the Winter, especially on sunny days like those we are now enjoying. We were in one today: it was comfortably warm, even with a few windows open. It was used as a conservatory and we were amazed to find so many interesting plants in the place: it was a real Winter garden. Sweet peas, growing in very shallow pans were producing an abundance of bloom; the plants were growing in about six inches of soil. Ger-oniums were very conspicuous as they always are, while many plants of the Transvaal Daisy (Gerbera jamesonii) were noticed sending forth their handsome orange-red flowers. A few plants of Solanum Capsicastrum, that native of Brazil that helps us with our Christmas decorations, were still looking most attractive with their scarlet berries. Poinsettias were also in evidence and another member of the same family, the Crown of Thorns (Euphorbia splen-dens)
was keeping the plants company This plant, ith its thick stems covered with spines, ive of Madagascar and it flowers
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