12 THE PARLOR GARDENER. 



ceed in it. To be successful in parlor garden- 

 ing, nothing is requisite but care and patience : 

 much of these is necessary, and so much the bet- 

 ter this sort of gardening belonging peculiarly 

 to those who have a great deal of leisure. The 

 extent to which parlor gardening can be carried 

 on, the kinds and variety of plants that it may 

 embrace, the times of the year in which we can 

 occupy ourselves in it with the most pleasure and 

 success, all this varies according to the space 

 we have, and the fitness of the situation for our 

 experiments. We shall take into consideration 

 all these things, as they present themselves in the 

 natural course of ordinary life. That we may 

 arrange our hints in some order, we will exam- 

 ine separately the garden in the room and the 

 garden at the window these being the two natu- 

 ral divisions of this treatise. 



In Part I. separate chapters are devoted to the 

 garden on the mantel-piece, the garden on the 

 etagkre, that on the flower-stand, and that in the 

 portable greenhouse. The different methods of 

 propagation by seeds, by slips, and by grafts 

 are the subjects of so many separate chapters. 



