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Sterculus, says when he goes on the warpath. I 

 discovered through a process of exhaustion those 

 plants which would bloom in a winter temperature 

 such as we are able to maintain in our greenhouse, 

 and by degrees I eliminated all that required 

 summer sunshine or stove heat to make them 

 flower. I cannot boast of the variety which once 

 adorned my greenhouse, but at any rate the plants 

 that are in it are those which blossom at mid- 

 winter, and thus succeed summer things in our 

 living-rooms. The results might appear con- 

 temptible to many an eye, but in point of quantity 

 I think they are the best that can be obtained from 

 a thousand cubic feet of glass. 



At this time of year, however, and for some 

 months to come, the greenhouse is a matter of 

 secondary importance, and no flowers, or hardly 

 any, will be found in it which required winter 

 tendance or room on its stages at that season. 

 Achimenes, begonias, gloxinias will presently be gay 

 in it, but these have lain under the shelves and have 

 given no trouble through the winter. Petunias, bal- 

 sams, and other various annuals will lend it bright- 

 ness, but they are propagated in spring, and, like 

 the tubers, have had no actual winter existence. 

 But as the earliest of these things cannot be ex- 



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pected to bloom before June, there will be plants 

 left over from late winter for the present furnishing 

 of the greenhouse, and although these will not be 

 very varied, they will be in sufficient quantity to 

 keep it bright. 



There would seem, judging from results, to be 

 very few persons living in the country and owning 



