# The Atlantic Monthly Volume 01 No 02 December 1857 A Magazine O

Author: Unknown

Genre: Public Domain

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: Local public-domain TXT source

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## Summary

I fear I have not what is called "a taste for flowers." To be sure, my cottage home is half buried in tall shrubs, some of which are flowering, and some are not. A giant woodbine has wrapped the whole front in its rich green mantle; and the porch is roofed and the windows curtained with luxuriant honeysuckles and climbing wild-roses. But, though I have tried for it many times, I never yet had a successful bed of flowers. My next neighbor, Mrs. Smith, is "a lady of great taste"; and when she leads me proudly through her trim alleys edged with box, and displays her hyacinths and tulips, her heliotropes, cactuses, and gladioluses, her choice roses, "so extremely double," and all the rare pla...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-01-no-02-december-1857-a-magazine-o-faee00ab/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-01-no-02-december-1857-a-magazine-o-faee00ab/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-01-no-02-december-1857-a-magazine-o-faee00ab/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-01-no-02-december-1857-a-magazine-o-faee00ab/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-atlantic-monthly-volume-01-no-02-december-1857-a-magazine-o-faee00ab/chapters/3/index.md)