130 THE PARLOR GARDENER. 



The fruits, however, of which I am about to 

 speak, have the merit of not being forbidden; 

 they are, on the contrary, among the most ad- 

 missible of things. 



Now, you are going to ask me if I pretend to 

 make you engage in planting fruit trees on your 

 terrace, such as there perhaps were in those 

 famous " Hanging Gardens" of Queen Semira- 

 mis ; which gardens, by the by, supposing them 

 to have ever existed, were nothing more nor 

 less than terrace gardens, such as your own ; 

 only, in a degree, never mind what precise de- 

 gree, more spacious. I have no such grand 

 enterprise to propose to you, ladies ; no scheme 

 of the sort is in my mind. I desire merely to call 

 your attention to a small number of excellent 

 fruits, of which you can easily have a harvest, I 

 do not promise that it shall be large enough to 

 load a ship, upon your terrace. 



In the first place, then, an assumption on my 

 part. I assume that your terrace is sufficiently 

 spacious to admit of your border boxes being large 

 enough to afford room for the worship of Pomona, 

 as well as for that already appropriated to Flora ; 



