A SIMPLE ILOWER GARDEN. 



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on the south side of the room. These will accommodate, 

 during the winter about fifty plants. Not all at one time, 

 but during the season extending from September to May. 

 The soil in which these plants are to grow must be pro- 

 cured in September, and in sufficient quantities to last the 

 entire eight months between this and spring. 



THE SOFT-WOODED PLANTS 



will need, of good common loam, from a potato-field, three 

 barrels ; of well-decomposed barn manure, three barrels ; 

 of mason's sand, one barrel. A flour-barrel is used for a 

 measure, because it gives the right proportions, the right 

 quantity, and is convenient to keep the soils in during the 

 winter. Each of these three materials must be sifted 

 through a common wire sieve, and the barrels, when filled, 

 placed out of the reach of frost and wet. 



TRE HARD-WOODED PLANTS 



will require one barrel of sand and two of peat. Great 

 care must be used in procuring this latter. It must be 

 thoroughly decomposed by the action of sun and frost. To 

 do this, it must be dug from the peat-bog, and allowed to lay 

 exposed to the weather for nine or " more months. It is 

 then fine, soft, and in condition to sustain plant life. These 

 two lists show to which class each plant, we shall use in 

 our window, belongs. It will serve for a guide in potting 

 them. 



