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that you may be able to tend and cultivate the 

 plants within. 



A multitude of interesting experiments in hor- 

 ticulture may be made, and charming results ob- 

 tained, in the small space contained within a cold 

 portable greenhouse. Its pots, none of them 

 exceeding the medium size, may contain a com- 

 plete assortment of the finest plants that are found 

 in greenhouses, not only in such as are not, but 

 in such as are, warmed by artificial means. If the 

 portable greenhouse has not a special apparatus 

 for warming it, it must be placed in a room where 

 people habitually sit, of which it must necessarily 

 take the temperature; and this temperature is 

 pretty nearly that of the artificially warmed 

 greenhouse. 



Principal Utility of the Cold Portable Green- 

 house. 



It is quite probable, ladies, that many of your 

 familiar acquaintance are, like yourself, fond of 

 parlor gardening. If you possess a cold portable 

 greenhouse, you may, if you please, multiply 

 indefinitely the choicest ornamental plants ; and, 



