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materially increased, and that is, if many 

 of its readers, who are in the habit of 

 borrowing, would purchase it for them- 

 selves. Then they would be doing justice 

 to the proprietor, and encouraging the 

 editor, as well as having the book for j 

 reference, etc. ; for surely, if it is worth 

 reading at all, it is worth the small pittance 

 of one penny per week. I merely throw 



out the hint, as I verily believe that the 

 parties referred to "borrow" more for 

 want of thought, than a disinclination to 

 buy the book for themselves. Perhapa 

 they will take the hint as kindly as it is 

 given, by one who wishes the FiOEAii 

 World the wide popularity it deserves, as 

 the only cheap monthly serial devoted to 

 garden interesting. W. 



A LADY'S HYBEENATOET FOE BEDDING PLANTS. 



BY AV. II. nOWlETT. 



In designing the accompanying plan for a 

 Hybernatory, I have kept in view the wants 

 more especially of the lady gardenei-, who 

 may not be blessed with a lord sharing her 

 love of flowers, and to whom her pet gera- 

 niums and fuchsias, occupying all the win- 

 dows and, maybe, sundry other parts oftLe 

 house, are not at all times agreeable ; to say 

 nothing of the patient tending and watch- 

 ing they require from her own hands — to 

 guard from frost, to clean from dust, and 

 then the yellow sickly appearance some of 

 them will assume in spite of all her care, 



beautiful green dress that her admiring 

 friends "can scarcely believe them the 

 same they have seen in the parlour win- 

 dow," who will not at once set about one ? 

 And here is the plan, so that no great 

 architect need be called in to accomplish 

 it, but the commonest tradesmen in the 

 village can do it all. And when done, all 

 the fuel that must be used is the cinders 

 Mary sweeps up from the parlour fire, for 

 the less heat, so long as damp is dissipated 

 and frost kept out, the better ; and this 

 will be best applied during the day when 



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would surely dishearten any but a true 

 votress of Flora. Now, if for £5 a pit 

 where her favourites can be safely stored 

 from the time when stern winter first asserts 

 his sway, until the time when he is driven 

 from his throne by the gentler seasons ; 

 and once again the large globe fuchsia 

 takes its place safe in front of the arbour, 

 and the less hardy kinds are plunged in the 

 border under the parlour window ; and her 

 geraniums begin to expand into fine broad 

 bushes, and to throw up innumerable stiff 

 trusses of flowers, and all wearing such a 



the lights may be slightly tilted at the 

 same time, unless the weather is actually 

 frosty. On looking at the plan, I fee'l 

 doubtful if any remarks upon the construc- 

 tion is necessary; but lest some of my 

 readers should not be so well acquainted 

 with plans, I will give a few details. The 

 walls are four-inch brickwork; and in order 

 to make them more secure against frost, as 

 well as improve their appearance, I should 

 recommend a bank of earth, one foot wide 

 at the base, and sloping upwards lo the 

 sill, to be thrown agaiust them, and neatly 

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