MINIATURE GREENHOUSES. 
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make your greenhouse profitable as well as enjoyable, so 
that in a short time it will pay for itself. But the person 
who undertakes a small greenhouse, with so practical an 
end in view, will not dabble in a little of this and a little 
of that, nor waste her energies on “all sorts of insignifi¬ 
cant little and big things because they are popular/ 5 She 
will carefully ascertain what plants are most productive of 
flowers that are salable , and shape her course accordingly. 
Boses, violets, bouvardias, carnations, all require nearly the 
same conditions of atmosphere, etc., and all are popular 
for winter bouquets. With geraniums and camellias, which 
will prove harmonious members of the same happy family, 
the greenhouse for profit will be found sufficiently stocked. 
If built against the side of the dwelling, the expense of 
one wall will be avoided, and, with plenty of moss and easy 
growing vines, it can be made very green and pleasant to 
look upon. Try it, necessitous reader ! It will be found 
far more pleasant and healthful than “ sewing for one’s 
friends,” and, if you have to borrow the money to build it, 
you can be very sure of paying it back again. At the time 
of this writing, January, 1881, Marechal Neil and Jacque¬ 
minot roses are selling at $1 and $2 a bud. 
As to the greenhouse for pleasure, that may come as an 
unexpected fortune to those who had scarcely dreamed of 
indulging in such luxuries. It is a delight to linger over it. 
Do not buy the new parlor carpet on which you had de¬ 
cided, wear your last winter’s sacque, bonnet, anything; 
do without desserts and give up preserving until it is a fact 
accomplished ; put everything you can decently save into the 
“ greenhouse fund,” and you will enjoy the pleasant sur¬ 
prise of seeing it “ roll up” like a snowball. 
When, at length, you can sit under your vine, at least, 
if not under your fig-tree, in the storms of wild December, 
this is the sort of picture it will present ; for your green¬ 
house is to be a summer bower in the midst of the winter 
