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them ; but, after all, oddity is but a poor recom- 

 mendation. What are thousands of these when 

 compared to a single rose bush in bloom ! 



98. I am rather anticipating here ; but, I wished 

 to explain why I do not recommend any very great 

 pains in the affair of a green-house. The plants 

 to keep in such a place I will talk of hereafter. At 

 present I am to speak of the making and the ma- 

 naging of such a place. 



1 99. A green-house is for the purpose of having 

 plants and flowers flourishing, or, at least, in ver- 

 dure and in bloom, in winter. The best place for 

 a green-house, is, near the dwelling house, and, it 

 should be actually joined to the dwelling house, 

 one of the rooms of which should have windows 

 looking into the green-house, which latter, how- 

 ever, must face the South. When the thing can be 

 thus contrived, it is very pretty. It renders a long 

 winter shorter in appearance ; and, in such cases, 

 appearances are realities. A door, opening from a 

 parlour into a green-house, makes the thing very 

 pleasant and especially in a country like America, 

 where, for six months, every thing like verdure is 

 completely absent from the fields and gardens. And, 

 if the expense be but small, such a pleasure may, 

 surely, be afforded to the females of a family, 

 though, to afford it, may demand some deduction in 

 the expenditure for the bottle, in the pleasures of 

 which (if, alas! pleasures they be !) the amiable la- 

 dies of this county do not partake. 



100. I hope, thiit no man, who has the means to 

 provide such pleasures for his wife, or daughters, 

 will talk to me about the uselessness of a green- 

 house. Of what use, then, is fine linen, when coarse 

 is cheaper and will last longer? Of what use is 

 beauty in a horse, a house, or in any thing else'? 

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