118 THE PARLOR GARDENER. 



the visits you will continue to pay, in November, 

 to your balcony garden, on the few fine days 

 which the departing year may yet have in store 

 for you. 



The "Winter Dress of the Balcony Garden. 



Winter is decidedly come. Your faithful little 

 mignionette, yielding at length to what the jurists 

 call force majeure, has abandoned you, and dis- 

 appeared from your boxes ; your chrysanthe- 

 mums have taken shelter within doors, that they 

 may there continue to present you with flowers. 

 Now, then, as they can no longer wear their 

 summer garments, give to the borders of your 

 balcony parterre their winter dress, which, though 

 much less variegated, is far from being without 

 charms. Plant there those beautiful tufts of the 

 galanthus, its white flowers bordered with green. 

 Its common name, snowdrop, may perhaps be 

 more familiar to your ears ; and this name its 

 robust temperament fully justifies, for it is en- 

 dowed with a most hardy constitution one that 

 enables it to bloom bravely between two freez- 

 ings, so that when a pale ray of sunshine comes 



