20 THE PARLOR GARDENER. 



CHAPTER II. 

 THE MANTEL-PIECE GARDEN. 



Plants which will do for it. Choice of Flower Bulbs. Hyacinths 

 blooming under the Water. Disposition of the Vases for this 

 Experiment. Planting the Bulbs. Hyacinths forced, in Water. 



Jonquil. Crocus. Van Tholl Tulips. Flower Pots for the 

 Garden on the Mantel-piece. Care of the Bulbs after Flowering. 



Separating the Tufts of Crocus. Vanilla Tussilago.* Hepat- 

 icas. 



YOU HAVE no idea, ladies, of the amount of 

 instructive and agreeable hints I am to give 

 you in this chapter : its title is not in the least 

 deceptive ; you can really make for yourself a 

 garden, without any other place at your disposal 

 than your mantel-piece. I take for granted, that 

 you will begin in good time to kindle your fires, 

 and that they will be kept up until spring has 

 fully taken possession of the outer atmosphere. 



On this condition, there will be no disappoint- 

 ment for you, in the resources that your garden on 

 the mantel-piece will afford. 



* Tussilago coltsfoot. Vanilla tussilago is probably the tussi- 

 lago fragrans. 



