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Having thus described my plant-house, let me tell you 

 how I stocked it. First I had my boy wheel all the rub- 

 ble in his barrow up to the side of the house, and, taking 

 out one of the loose sashes dump it into the bottom of the 

 borders, spreading it out about six inches deep. Then I 

 engaged a laborer to help the boy, and had the various 

 heaps of sand, loam, etc.. thrown up in one huge pile. This 

 being done they began at one end, and turned it all over, 

 breaking the lumps and mixing the whole well together. 

 When this was accomplished the entire heap was removed 

 in the wheelbarrow to the borders. When the work was 

 completed the interior presented this appearance, the right 

 hand border in the west house filled up level with the 

 boarding of the path ; fifty feet on the other side filled in 

 the same way, and the remaining fifty feet filled within 

 twelve inches of the top. By so doing, I gained one foot 

 in height for the taller plants. The border in the violet 

 house was filled full. One half of the east house border 

 was full, and one half one foot lower. 



By this time the plants began to arrive. First came 

 the roses. These, together with a few from my garden, I 

 had planted in the left-hand border in the west house, giving 

 them half the length of the house. The opposite border 

 was devoted to the four hundred heliotropes. All of these 

 were taken out of the pots, and planted in the soil of the 

 border, just as we would treat them in the open ground in 

 summer. Then Mr. Felix sent the carnations. They were 



