116 THE PARLOR GARDENER. 



sowing those seeds only which come from the 

 choicest flowers, you will be sure to have a 

 beautiful mixture, presenting the finest shades 

 in proper proportions. 



Plants propagated in the Portable Greenhouse. 

 The boxes of the great balcony I suppose 

 them to be large enough will naturally be the 

 receptacle for the plants reared in your portable 

 greenhouse ; and among these will be your seed- 

 ling pinks, that will all find an appropriate place 

 there. A group of variegated tulips ; another of 

 hyacinths, blue, rose, and pale yellow ; elegant 

 borders of crocuses, which you have taken care 

 to alternate, white, violet, and golden yellow ; 

 these will enamel your parterre from the very set- 

 ting in of spring. Do not be afraid to multiply 

 by slips your pelargoniums, chrysanthemums, 

 fuchsias, lantanas, and heliotropes, in order that 

 your boxes may be kept constantly filled with 

 plants in flower. You will never have too many, 

 if you be sedulous not to leave empty places in. 

 them. With this view, be always careful to sow 

 seeds in the place of the plants you have trans- 



