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STOVE PLANTS

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 774 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PLANTS
PLANTS .—For the successful culture of stove plants two houses at least, wherein different temperatures can be maintained, should be devoted to their growth. The minimum temperature durin See also:

winter should range at See also:

NIGHT

night from about 55° in the cooler to 65 in the warmer See also:

house, and from 65° to 75° by See also:

day, allowing a few degrees further rise by See also:

sun See also:

HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat. In summer the temperature may range 1o° higher by artificial heat, night and day, and will often by sun heat run up to 90 or even 95 , beyond which it should be kept down by See also:

VENTILATION (Lat. ventilare, from ventus, wind)

ventilation and frequent syringing and damping down of the pathways. During the growing See also:

period the See also:

ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere must be kept moist by damping the walls and pathways, and by syringing the plants according to their needs; when growth is completed less moisture will be necessary. Watering, which, except during the resting period, should generally be copious, is best done in the forenoon; while syringing should be done See also:

early in the See also:

MORNING

morning before the sun becomes too powerful, and See also:

LATE

late in the afternoon to admit of the foliage drying moderately before night.

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