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When the heat of the dog days renders coolness 

 precious, your friends will be glad to come and 

 partake with you of that which your ivy- clad 

 arbor affords : for three months its freshness will 

 be a source of delightful feelings for them as well 

 as for yourself. Do you say this is no great 

 thing ? Agreed. But, on your side, you will 

 have to admit that it is a great deal better than 

 nothing at all, and that, as a general rule, it is 

 wise not to ask of any thing more than it can 

 give you a rule which, applying as it does to 

 your terrace with a north exposure, as to all other 

 things, must be its protection against unwise 

 exactions. 



Terraces of a good Exposure. 



What we have effected, in the way of garden- 

 ing, upon your balconies to the east, west, and 

 south, you have only to repeat on a larger scale, 

 if your terrace garden has one of these exposures. 

 Here, however, is the place for some advice re- 

 specting certain plants, of medium and large size, 

 that we have not been able to cultivate before, 

 for want of room. 



