A "hot bottle" will keep frost out of a small room where one has stored geraniums, &c., so will a small paraffin lamp (which--N.B .-- will also keep water-pipes from catastrophe).

How I have toiled, in my young days, with these same hot-water bottles in a cupboard off the nursery, which was my nearest approach to a greenhouse! And how sadly I have experienced that where Mr.Frost goes out Mr.Mould is apt to slink in! Truly, as Mr.Warner says, "the gardener needs all the consolations of a high philosophy!" It is a great satisfaction if things _will_ live out of doors.

And in a _little_ garden a good deal of coddling may be done.

I am going to get some round fruit hampers to turn over certain tender pets this winter.

When one has one's flowers by the specimen and not by the score, such cosseting is possible.