BALCONY GARDENING. 



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PLEASANT summer pastime, in 

 our climate, is balcony gardening. 

 In England, very pretty winter gar- 

 dens are fitted up in the balconies 

 by a collection of fine evergreens, 

 such as variegated Hollies, Lau- 

 restinus, and Acuba Japonica, but none 

 l of these withstand our winter. 

 Yv/*" n England, they never have such burn- 



^J ^J ing sun and such icy cold as we expe- 



rience; such sudden changes of temperature as occur in 

 our climate are unknown, and many of the inhabitants 

 of our green-houses are there hardy plants. It is not 

 the winter's cold which kills many of our plants, it is 

 the sun. The plant is frozen hard by a zero night ; at 

 morning, the sun comes out warm, and, while the air 

 around may be cold, the plant is thawed ; at night, it is 

 again frozen ; then thawed. Is it strange the plant dies ? 

 Therefore it is that many plants will grow and thrive on 

 the north side of your house, which, on the south, are 

 winter-killed. The remedy is simple : protect from the 

 winter's sun, and your plants will not be winter-killed. 

 In this climate a pretty display of green may be kept up 



