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flowers while you can get them from the garden- 

 ers, agree with a gardener by profession, and he 

 will keep your flower- stand furnished at all sea- 

 sons with blooming plants. Your care will be 

 confined to watering them and keeping them free 

 from the dust. You will enjoy them ; but they 

 will not be your work. 



Plants to cultivate on the Flower-stand. 

 You will do better than that, if, having the 

 leisure, you have the will also, to give assiduous 

 attention yourself to the cultivation of the plants 

 that are to adorn your flower-stand. I imagine 

 this to be the case that you are disposed to 

 take a little of that trouble which is a pleasure, 

 and to make of your flower-stand a real garden 

 of your own. We will begin, if you please, in 

 the month of November at the time when the 

 fall of the leaves brings back to the cities those 

 who have passed the fine season in the country. 



Climbing Plants. 



Choose a flower- stand as large as the space you 

 have to give it will allow ; keep it constantly 



