Excerpt from Flowers, How to Grow Them: A Practical Treatise Devoted Mainly to the Care of Indoor Flowers IN order to grow flowers well - and the true lover Of flowers will not be satisfied to grow them in any other way - one must understand their habits and requirements. Unless these are understood the cul tivation of flowers will be largely experimental in its nature, and no one will feel confident Of doing the right thing in the right way at the right time. The experiment may prove successful, but in many in stances it will prove to be a failure. It is therefore desirable that the beginner should understand cer tain general principles Upon Which successful flori culture is based, and it is the Object of this little book to teach these principles in a concise, common sense, practical manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.