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OUR GREENHOUSES, AND WHAT WE GROW IN THEM. 



BY THE CHAIRMAN. 



If the question were asked. What do we grow in our greenhouses ? it 

 would have to be thus answered, A little of everything and nothing well. 

 This is the truth, discreditable as it may be ; and to show how we may im- 

 prove in this respect is the purpose of this article. 



Let us visit any greenhouse in our neighborhood and carefully examine 

 the collection, — in how many shall we find a dozen really beautiful speci- 

 men plants ? Here and there, now and then, a fine, well-bushed, or trained, 

 well-proportioned plant may be seen ; but the mass are tall, long-drawn, 

 ungainly, ugly plants, which, aside from their companions, possess no beau- 

 ty or symmetry. How, then, do they appear so well? By grouping, 



