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hereafter. At present I am to speak of the 

 making and the managing of such a place. 



99. A green-house is for the purpose of ha- 

 ving plants and flowers flourishing, or at least, in 

 verdure 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 lat- 

 ter, however, 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 ex- 

 pense 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 ex- 

 penditure for the bottle, in the pleasures of which 

 (if, alas! pleasures they be!) the amiable ladies 

 of this country do not partake. 



100. I hope, that no man, who has the means 

 to provide such pleasures for his wife, or daugh- 

 ters, will talk to me about the uselessness of a 

 green-house. Of what use then is Jine linen, 

 when coarse is cheaper and will last longer ! Of 

 what use is beauty in a horse, a house, or in any 

 thing else I* Of what use are sporting dogs and 

 guns ? The use of these things, is, that they 

 give pleasure ; that they render life pleasanter 

 than it would be without them. And, why not, 

 on the same principle, call a green-bouse useful ? 



