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all that it is possible to do in horticulture without 

 leaving your house. I hope I have showed you, 

 ladies, that to satisfy your enlightened taste for 

 beautiful, ornamental plants, and to occupy a part 

 of your leisure time very agreeably, nothing more 

 is necessary than gardening in a parlor. But this 

 in no way prevents your giving also some of your 

 attention to the only out- do or garden which is pos- 

 sible to the greater portion of the inhabitants of 

 large populous cities the garden at the window. 

 Before any thing else, you must consider the 

 exposure of your windows ; for the question is no 

 longer how to cultivate living plants in the arti- 

 ficial atmosphere of an inhabited chamber, or a 

 portable greenhouse. The garden plants at the 

 window are destined to live in the open air, ifj 

 indeed, the gaseous fluid of cities, which is alone 

 at their disposal, merits the name of air. "The 

 greater part of the time, however, they do not live 

 there : reared in real gardens by real gardeners, 

 bought in full flower to shine for some days only, 

 they make haste to die in a medium that is not 

 really air, and where, consequently, one cannot 

 exact of them to live. Your windows are either 

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