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THE LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET. 
is often a charming sight. Both are pretty for bouquets, 
having no offensive odor, and all are easily cultivated in 
the shade. 
“'Although these are called trilliums, from having all 
the parts in threes, exceptions are found. In a group of 
perfect flowers will be found one with four petals, four 
sepals and four leaves. More rarely a double flower 
occurs. How great was our pleasure in seeing one re¬ 
cently with six long sepals and nineteen petals of green¬ 
ish white. We thought of many comparisons, as others 
may do, and wondered what a florist might effect where 
nature had so clearly pointed out the way.” 
Double-Flowering Trillium. 
MY SUMMER CONSERVATORY. 
I WANT to tell the readers of The Floral Cabinet 
how I arrange my flowers to beautify and grace my 
home in the summer, as all my entire year’s work is to 
this end ; for, with years of trial, I have never succeeded 
in getting any but a few plants to flower with me in 
winter. Having only a deep pit, with glass sides and 
roof, and no fire heat, I keep my plants in an almost 
dormant condition during winter, hence, to enjoy them I 
exert every effort to obtain fine specimen plants for this 
summer conservatory, so called, though it is only my 
front veranda (or piazza, as we call them here). This 
piazza is fifty feet long in the centre, ten feet deep, with 
narrower wings eight feet deep thrown out on each end. 
The hall door and the windows from both front drawing¬ 
rooms opening to the floor by glass doors, give access to 
it, while in the centre it is approached from the ground by 
six broad stone steps, which are flanked on each side with 
broad, paneled boxings two feet wide and level with the 
floor. The piazza is finished with ornamented columns or 
pillars, and a balustrade with large turned columns. On 
this balustrade I have planks fourteen inches wide and 
two inches thick, fitted neatly, on which to set my pots of 
plants. With each season I strive to vary the arrange¬ 
ment, and as it always attracts attention and admiration 
I will describe it, as now it is in full beauty. 
On the east side is a large iron basket, painted ver¬ 
milion, the arch over the basket making it six feet high. 
In this basket are many plants from eight to ten years 
old. The largest is Plumbago capensis, with hundreds 
of pale lavender phlox-shaped clustered flowers ; many of 
