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How to Make a Flower Garden 



Did my reader ever care for a greenhouse in a northern winter? Has 

 he smelled the warm, moist earth when the windows are covered with frost? 

 Has he watched the tiny sprout grow and unfold into leaf and flower ? Has 

 he thrust a fragment of the luxuriance of August into the very teeth of winter ? 

 Then he knows the joy of a conquest that makes a man stronger and tenderer. 



Here is the warmth and snugness of a nook of summer 



Greenhouses are of many kinds. There is one kind of the commercial 

 plantsman, and another of the man of means whose conservatory is essential 

 to the architectural completeness of his mansion. Of these we need not 

 speak here, for their necessity is long ago established. But for another 

 kind we wish to plead — for the quiet, unobtrusive greenhouse as an adjunct 

 to a modest home. 



The object of this simple winter garden need not be the mere growing 

 of flowers, although these may be had without trouble. It is worth the while 

 to grow a plant just because it is a plant and because we are human beings. 



