THE NEW 



PEACTICAL WINDOW GARDENER. 



CHAPTER I. 



INTEODUCTOKY KEMAEKS. 



jlDAM "was the first man, and being placed in 

 the garden of Eden " to dress it and to keep 

 it," he was thus also the first gardener, and 

 ever since he tended the lovely flowers of Paradise the 

 love of flowers and gardening has become so natural to 

 the human heart that we all, more or less, feel its 

 influence. There are very few who do not turn with 

 pleasure to look at a beautiful flower, or who wandering 

 abroad in nature's own wild garden do not delight in 

 the pretty little daisies, bluebells, forget-me-nots, and 

 all the host of floral gems that bloom in their sweet, 

 wild beauty everywhere, in wood and field, by stream 

 and hedgerow; or who do not feel it to be one of the 

 richest treats to stroll through a modern flower garden 

 where Flora reigns supreme in all the gorgeous colours 

 of the rainbow, dazzling the eyes with her splendour 

 and magnificence. 



In the present age the science and practice of gar- 

 dening has risen to a height of perfection never before 



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