20 WINTER GREENERIES AT HOME. 



WHAT MORE? 



Sufficient warmta and light having been secured as the 

 chief and indispensable conditions, the fixtures necessary 

 for the accommodation of our plants might next be con- 

 sidered ; but the description of these in detail I must re- 

 serve for some future letter. You will find many in- 

 genious but simple devices, varied enough to utilize all the 

 space in your windows, and suit the needs of all your 

 plants. Stationary or swinging brackets, to be fastened 

 to the side-casings at different points from the bottom 

 upward, as high as you can reach, toward the Tropics ; 

 hanging baskets of either wire and moss, or terra-cotta, 

 to be suspended from wire loops let down from the cas- 

 ing, or on a rod fastened across the window from side to 

 side ; a long, narrow box, filled with plants in pots, to be 

 kept under the window, etc., etc. 



But the completeness of our proposed Eden will de- 

 pend much more upon its occupants than its furniture. 

 If the plants are suited to the place, and properly treated, 

 they will grow and thrive to such an extent as quite to 

 eclipse their fixtures, whether cheap or costly. It is this 

 luxuriance and beauty, on their part, that brings the 

 thought of Eden, and justifies the name ; and, on our 

 part, is it not the appropriate character and tastes 9 With 

 these, then, we may hope for complete success. 



A SIMPLE SPECIMEN. 



Do you wonder how this Eden will look when planted 

 and put in order ? You ask me to tell you about the one 

 in which I write, "all about that embowered study" of 

 mine. If I am to do it at all, perhaps this is the time ; but 

 an Eden must be seen and enjoyed rather than described. 

 However, since you can not see it now, and because it is 

 not elaborate and expensive, but is very simple, and easily 

 made, I make an attempt at its description. 



