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The very easy gardening, of which we have 

 just described the process, will bring you to the 

 fine weather ; and then, if you go to the country 

 to pass the summer, the mantel-piece may remain 

 widowed of its garden until autumn. But if you 

 remain, you may put upon the mantelpiece some 

 of your prettiest flowers, whenever you have too 

 many for your balcony. They will there require 

 attentions of which we will tell you in the part 

 of this work particularly devoted to the garden 

 at the window. 



Vanilla Tussilago Hepaticas. 



Has your mantel-piece room enough to admit 

 of two or three supplementary pots ? Then put 

 there if you are not afraid of sweet, penetrating 

 perfumes, a pot of vanilla tussilago. The flower 

 is ugly, but of an odor equal to that of the sweet- 

 est orchises, and it does not affect the head. 



If you are afraid of odors, even the delicate 

 and inoffensive, substitute for the vanilla tus- 

 silago rose- colored and blue hepaticas, which are 

 charming in form and color, and have no per-' 

 fume. With these resources there is abundant 



