144 THE PARLOR GARDENER. 



house, the inner one even with the inside wall of 

 the apartment. Thanks to this arrangement, the 

 cold reigning without is so far excluded that a 

 mild temperature is preserved in your chamber, 

 while, at the same time, there remains between 

 the two sashes a vacant space which is at your 

 disposal for any uses to which it is susceptible 

 of being put. It is the very thing for our garden- 

 ing purposes. 



The English like to keep avadevats there ; by 

 the Dutch, this space is dedicated to canary 

 birds, which they understand perfectly how to 

 rear, Holland being the country of all others 

 where these birds do most abound. There is 

 nothing, however, ladies, to prevent you from 

 appropriating it to your favorite pets flowers. 



It is evident that whenever the interior sash is 

 kept open, the interval between the two sashes 

 receiving, as it then does, a portion of the atmos- 

 phere of the chamber, will of course be of the 

 same temperature. This space, then, is equiv- 

 alent to a little conservatory, either merely tem- 

 pered or hot, according as the person who occu- 

 pies the chamber is more or less chilly; and in 



