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house. They will soon begin again to vegetate, 

 and by January or February they will be in 

 bloom, which, of itself, will be very agreeable 

 to you ; and they will ripen their fruits a month 

 or two before those in the open air. To enable 

 them to do this, the only assistance they require 

 from you is to be placed near the windows, and 

 to be turned every day, so that each side may 

 receive its share of light, and to have the air 

 they breathe kept up at a constant tempera- 

 ture of from sixty-two to sixty-three degrees of 

 Fahrenheit's thermometer. This will be about 

 the temperature of your room ; the one at which 

 it would be kept as being the most pleasant to 

 yourself, and the best for your health, as well 

 as comfort ; so that you will not be put to any 

 additional expense, nor have to derange your 

 habits in any way for the sake of these dwarf 

 fruit-bearing pets of yours. 



You see now that fruits, no less than flow- 

 ers, have their part to play on your terrace, 

 although the principal part appertains to the 

 flowers. When you receive your friends, will 

 it not be very pleasant to have cherries, and cur- 



