150 THE PARLOR GARDENER. 



CONCLUSION. 



AND HERE, my dear ladies, ends the series of 

 notions upon horticulture in the house that I 

 proposed to give you. Can the Parlor Gardener 

 natter himself with having inspired you with a 

 little interest for those plants that you already 

 loved without knowing it, for you were pre- 

 disposed by your nature to do so, and that 

 you will love better and better in proportion as 

 you know them more ? One thing above all 

 ought to have struck you in the course of our 

 discourse : it is, that in all that I have taken the 

 liberty to recommend to you, there is not a single 

 process that each of you cannot practise by your- 

 self; not a single culture that you cannot suc- 

 ceed in by conforming to my hints. Success in 

 our undertakings, whatever the thing may be 

 that we undertake to do, is always pleasure 

 often happiness. 



Let us understand each other, however. I do 



