POPULAR 

 GARDEN BOTANY. 



(GREENHOUSE PLANTS.) 



However beautiful and interesting an English garden may 

 be in spring, summer, and autumn, when a rapid succession 

 of graceful forms and lovely colours present themselves to 

 the eye of the patient and nature-loving cultivator, the 

 time must come, and ever comes too soon, when it may be 

 said with Bryant : — 



" Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang, and 

 stood 



la brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood ? 

 The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain 

 Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again." 



During the comparatively desolate period of winter, when 

 remembrance of the past only brings regret, and hope for 



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