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and one of Count Brazza's white violets complete 

 the tale of frames given up to these flowers. Other 

 plants are growing in the open, to yield their 

 blossoms later than the ones that are in shelter. 



In the next following pages I am going to give 

 advice to those who have but a small quantity of 

 glass, and are yet desirous of keeping up a stock of 

 flowers for cutting during the winter season of the 

 year. To persons who possess a considerable area 

 of greenhouse accommodation I have nothing to 

 say. They should never be wanting in blossoms, 

 provided that proper care and a sufficient expendi- 

 ture is provided. But there is a far larger class of 

 amateur growers those who have a small green- 

 house, or perhaps a couple of greenhouses, and 

 imagine themselves well off for flowers if they can 

 muster half a dozen pots or vases for the drawing- 

 room in January. To these I should like to prove 

 that they are by no means getting the best that is 

 possible unless they can fill their rooms as full of 

 flowers in January as in August. This chapter, 

 therefore, is addressed to amateur gardeners who 

 have sufficient outdoor plants to provide flowers for 

 cutting from March to October, and require enough 

 under glass to keep them supplied from October to 

 March. 



The first essential is the giving up entirely and 

 unreservedly all the bedding plants with which the 

 greenhouse is probably half filled. In the first 

 place, the summer bedding system of gardening is 

 utterly wrong in principle. Spring, summer, and 

 autumn should find its own flowers growing without 

 disturbance at any season of the year. There may 



