238 CULTIVATION. 



raise seedlings, strike cuttings or layers, or re- 

 cover sickly plants at all times of the year. 



These are the buildings which affluence and 

 taste, by the aid of practical skill, has had erected 

 for keeping exotic, and flowering at pleasure 

 hardy plants. They yield to the proprietor much 

 pleasurable amusement, and the high gratifica- 

 tion of possessing in a northern clime many of 

 the vegetable gems and sweets of the glowing 

 and exuberant south. 



OF THE LAPIDIUM, COMMONLY 

 CALLED ROCK- WORK. 



As a flower-garden is a receptacle for every 

 thing that is gay and beautiful in the vegetable 

 kingdom, so every kind of soil and habitat natural 

 to the plants respectively, should be, as nearly 

 as possible, imitated; not only as a means con- 

 ducive to their free growth, but in order that 

 they may be seen in their domesticated state as 



