8 PREFACE. 



procure for you a tuft of the yellow sedum, 

 (stone-crop.) It is a very pretty wild plant, 

 which bears, in place of leaves, little green ex- 

 crescences elegantly set into one another. Each 

 stalk forms part of a tuft composed of a great 

 number of stems coming out from a common 

 centre, and each bears on its top some star- 

 shaped flowers of a beautiful golden yellow. 

 Fix a strong pin into the wall paper of your 

 chamber, and hang a tuft of stone-crop to it by 

 a thread, which you must take care not to tie 

 too tight. In a few days the stalks will curve 

 upwards and stand upright, and the flower buds 

 will all open exactly as if the plant had not been 

 taken from the place where it first grew. 



You see now that there are flowers for every 

 body without exception ; and of this you will 

 become more fully convinced if you will only 

 peruse, with a little indulgent attention, my 

 PARLOR GARDENING. 



