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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



the following season is rather too distant to afford much 

 consolation, the greenhouse offers its valuable services, not 

 merely by nurturing and preserving those favourites which 

 have only become partly acclimatized, but by presenting to 

 us its own peculiar gifts, in those more delicate exotics 

 which will not at present, and in all probability never will, 

 bear exposure to our rude climate, but must be fostered 

 by protection from the outer air, and occasionally by arti- 

 ficial heat. A greenhouse is now generally considered an 

 indispensable addition to a garden of any pretension ; and, 

 as Cowper says, " Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse 

 too/' for the very efficient reason, that there blooms exotic 

 beauty, warm and snug, while the winds whistle and the 

 snows descend/' 



A volume having been provided to aid the young gar- 

 dener in the acquirement of that knowledge which is essen- 

 tial to the management of a garden, and also to explain the 

 botanical arrangement, characteristics, and properties of the 

 plants cultivated therein, the following pages will be de- 

 voted to Greenhouse Gardening,— treating of those plants 

 which are generally introduced under the shelter of glass 

 both summer and winter, and also those which only require 

 a security from the cold of the latter season. A greenhouse 



