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INDOOR GARDENING. 



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Fig. 5. 



attention be given them. Whatever the soil used, it should contain a 

 good quantity of powdered charcoal or suchlike, to keep it from run- 

 ning together and becoming sodden. Hyacinths can occupy the 

 centre of it, with Narcissi, Tulips, Cro- 

 cuses, Snowdrops, &c, round them. A 

 more elaborate contrivance is the Prince 

 of Wales circular terraced drawing-room 

 jardinet, fig. 4, which has three terraces 

 rising one above the other; and when taste- 

 fully planted, this is a charming object to 

 place in a sitting-room window. During r ^^^^ll«§^ 

 the summer months, this and the preceding ^|| 

 can be filled with Ferns. "When planted 

 with some of the most elegant species suited 

 for the purpose, it would be equally attrac- 

 tive. Fig. 5 is a rustic hanging - basket, 

 which can be suspended near a window, 

 and can be used for the growth of bulbs 

 during winter, and for plants in summer. There are many elegant 

 and tasteful designs to be had, and they are charming ornaments for 

 a sitting-room. Fig. 6 is a very tasteful 

 design, as well as an ornamental and 

 useful piece of furniture. It is termed 

 the drawing-room octagon jardinet, and 

 is manufactured in bronze, or in rustic 

 wood fitted with encaustic tiles. In our ^/T^jiSj 

 illustration this is filled with a hand- 

 some Dracaena, with a low-growing Fern 

 planted round it. 



Such are a few of many means by 

 which gardening can be carried on 

 within-doors. They are by no means 

 the most elaborate, but they represent 

 some of the more easily managed modes. 



This, then, is the time to prepare and 

 preserve within-doors some approximate 

 resemblance to what is so fast passing 

 away without ; and some of these ele- 

 gant contrivances, filled with suitable 

 occupants, and carefully tended because 

 affectionately regarded for the useful 



floral service they render, will be found among the best means of per- 

 petuating during the desolation of winter something of that high satis- 



