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CHAPTER XXIII. 



CONCLUDING REMAKKS ON WINDOW GAEDENING. 



EFORE bidding adieu to you, my dear readers, 

 let us take a review of the whole question of 

 window gardening. We have travelled on 

 together from page to page and chapter to chapter till 

 the subject has become as familiar to our ears as an old 

 song, the ever recurring refrain of which has been 

 " Take care of our window plants." And I am sure 

 the pleasure in the subject we have discussed must 

 have been mutual, I in giving advice, you in profiting 

 by it. For we all have a love for the floral beauties of 

 nature that decorate the pathway of our life. 



It is no false or costly pleasure I have been advo- 

 cating. It is a simple heart-felt, every-day enjoyment, 

 in which the very poorest may share. Those of my 

 readers who are confined in towns, will understand 

 this better than those who live in the country. In the 

 town a blade of grass even creates a sweet enjoyment, 

 and the little modest Daisy or Buttercup is quite 

 enough to send a town's wearied heart into raptures, 

 while a blooming Geranium or Fuchsia is like an oasis 

 in the desert — a pleasant resting place for the wearied 

 mind. In the country a thousand charming objects 



