BESSIE’S VISIT TO ROSE LAWN. 109

“Should you? I will go with you,” replied
Ada, putting down the cake-basket on the
settee.

“The hyacinths! the hyacinths! Beautiful
hyacinths !” exclaimed Bessie, bending over a
bed of those fragrant flowers, now sending
forth their rich perfume, and delighting the
eye with their delicate colors.

** Don’t touch one for the world,” said Ada ;
“our gardener is so cross he never lets me
pick a single flower.”

Bessve.—Not. pick them! when he has so
many ? 3

Ada.—No; he ties them into bouquets for
the parlors and dining-room, but he never lets
anybody else touch them. I will show you the
green-house if you wish.

Bessie.—W hat is a green-house ?

' Ada—tThere it is—it’s a place where flowers
are kept warm all winter, and brought forward.
When they are in blossom, or just going to
blossom, the plants are brought from the green-
house*into the conservatory, that you see there;
the conservatory opens into the south parlor,
yonder.