The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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PREPARATION FOR WINTER GARDENING. 



E say that winter-gardening begins with autumn, but summer, 

 or even the month of May, is none too soon to begin 

 planning for our winter gardens, if we wish to make sure 

 of all the beauty and all the pleasure that may be derived 

 from them. One of the very first points requiring atten- 

 tion is to provide suitable plant-stock between this month 

 and the time of frosts. Here let the inexperienced be on 

 their guard ; not all pot-plants are alike suitable for culti- 

 vation in dwellings. Let the list be confined to such 

 plants as are known beyond doubt to be well adapted to 

 this purpose, and do not invite failure and disappointment 



by attempting to grow others. The list of good winter-flowering plants is so 



long and so varied that any taste may be satisfied with a choice of thoroughly 



tested sorts. 



A list of fifty distinct kinds of plants specially adapted to window-culture 



is given below : 



