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bulbs. For the spring, rely on everblooming roses,* ana geraniums, 

 If they also wish to have the green-house gay in summer, they must 

 shade it (or wash the under side of the roof-glass with whiting), and 

 grow Fuchsias and Achimenes. In this way, they will never be 

 without flowers in abundance, while their neighbors, who collect 

 every new thing to be heard of under the sun, will have more tall 

 stalks and meagre foliage, than bright blossoms and odorous bouquets 

 for their trouble. 



* Nothing is more satisfactory than those fine Noisette roses, the La- 

 marque and Cloth of Gold, planted in an inside bords^ and trained up 

 under the rafters of the green-house. In this way they grow to great size, 

 and give a profusion of roses. 



