THE PARLOR GARDENER. 53 



Their bloom will be the fruit of your own labor ; 

 it will have been merited by the act of cultivating 

 them. They will have for you a hundred times 

 the value that the most beautiful plants would 

 have which you bought, in bloom, from the 

 gardener, and replaced by others without your 

 having a hand in producing them. 



Moreover, young ladies, besides the plants 

 with which I have just advised you to adorn 

 your flower- stand, you have an immense lati- 

 tude and many resources unlimited, we may 

 say in the many varieties of the different spe- 

 cies of other plants, equally worthy of your care. 

 As we shall, in the course of this treatise, when 

 engaged upon the subject of multiplying and cul- 

 tivating plants, have occasion to make special 

 mention of those just referred to, this need not 

 be done here. I shall take care to make you 

 acquainted with such as would figure to advan- 

 tage in the flower-stand of your apartment ; 

 which, if its situation be favorable enough, may 

 form a companion to the garden on the mantel- 

 piece, in addition to the garden on the dtagbre. 



And pray observe, mothers, to you do I now 



