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er, as well as the London Field, which always con 

 tained a valuable article on &quot; &quot;Work for the Week,&quot; 

 that gave me a number of important suggestions. 

 The thorough study of these for the space of a month 

 made me perfectly acquainted with the subject in 

 hand ; they not only told me all about green-houses 

 and window-culture, but gave me valuable hints 

 about propagating vines, pruning trees, increasing 

 and improving manure, building concrete walls, skin 

 ning sheep, sawing logs, chopping down trees, and 

 concerning a vast number of other subjects, all of 

 which information might prove exceedingly useful 

 some day or other if my farming enterprises pro 

 ceeded. 



By the aid of these works it was ascertained that 

 plants could be grown advantageously in a room of 

 an ordinary dwelling-house, provided the proper care 

 was exercised. This was quite satisfactory, as, un 

 fortunately, I had no other place than the fourth- 

 story room of my house in the city to devote to my 

 new proteges. Under the published directions, which 

 I studied over till I had them by heart, a room with 

 a southerly exposure was selected, a staging was 

 erected in front of the windows, and the gas was so 

 secured that no thoughtless person could turn it on 

 and poison the air of the extemporized green-house. 



