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yellow, the Irish ivy will surround your window 

 to the north with a drapery of ever- verdant vegeta- 

 tion, which will serve to bring out advantageously 

 the few flowers that it is possible to cultivate in 

 this exposure. The hepaticas, blue and rose-col- 

 ored the lily of the valley the digitalis, (fox- 

 glove,) violet and white the mimulus, (monkey 

 flower,) the large flowered hypericum, (St. John's- 

 wort,) and the charming nemophila, are all 

 plants which, as they grow naturally by the side of 

 great forests, may consequently do without the sun. 

 These, with the violet and the periwinkle for their 

 modest companions, will be the principal elements 

 of decoration for your garden at the window with 

 a northern exposure. 



If, regardless of expense, you be fully deter- 

 mined to have on this balcony all the plants of the 

 season, then procure and place them there, despite 

 of the short duration of flowers in this exposure. 

 You will do this knowing beforehand that the 

 plants will die some time after flowering an an- 

 noying result, which, however, cannot be avoided ; 

 it forms part of the cost which must be paid for 

 the pleasure of having them there. 



