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How to Make a Flower Garden 



the zeros I favour the more tender plants as weh as I can. Of course, in 

 growing such a variety as I have the conditions are not suited to all, but 

 I seldom lose any. The list is too numerous to mention, but I have some 

 large palms, a fine specimen of Pittospornui Tobira more than five feet 

 across, a loquat in bloom, orange and lemon trees in fruit, araucarias, 

 azaleas, camellias, begonias, ferns, a lot of flowering plants, and even crotons. 



In summer I move all the p ants and arrange favourable and attractive 

 places for them about the garden. 

 Five or six night-blooming cereus, 

 a few climbing roses and a large 

 JMonstera deliciosa are about all 

 that remain inside, and they are 

 too large to handle. 



It is hard to estimate the 

 cost, as I have made so many 

 changes, but I should think about 

 $350 would put up the building if 

 I had to do it over again. 



I cannot imagine how any 

 one who loves plants could spend 

 money better than by building a 

 small greenhouse. Things may be 



so arranged that fifteen or twenty minutes, or a half-hour at the most, 

 every morning is plenty of time to care for it, but one will take a great deal 

 more time than this when one has the opportunity to enjoy it. 



After the dark days of winter, when the days lengthen and the sun 

 grows brighter, comes the most enjoyable time in the greenhouse. The 

 plants seem to freshen up, and I have tender water-lilies and other things 

 to start in anticipation of summer time. Who but an enthusiast can appre- 

 ciate the joys of the new spring catalogue? Besides the pleasure of the 

 flowers comes the feeling of looking after and caring for the plants. He 

 who grows roses "must first have them in his heart." Very few days in 

 the year pass without some flowers from the greenhouse on our table, and 

 then there is the pleasure of caring for the plants themselves. They all 

 have different needs and associations, like old friends. I should not wish 

 to live without a greenhouse. There is no end of satisfaction in growing 

 good things and watching their development. 



greenhouse 



