Canadian fruit, flower and kitchen gardener .. . ough not ministering food to the eater, shallcheer with their winsome beauty the dwellers at home, smile outa welcome to the entering guest, or greet with a cheery pleasant-ness the passer-by; to help such have these pages, devoted to theFlower Garden, been penned. Our Canadian climate may not be the most favorable forlavish display of floral beauty, yet there are many beautifiilthings that wiU endure our climate, and, if it be necessary tobestow more thought and care upon the culture and protectionof the trees, shrubs, and plants which we desir
Canadian fruit, flower and kitchen gardener .. . ough not ministering food to the eater, shallcheer with their winsome beauty the dwellers at home, smile outa welcome to the entering guest, or greet with a cheery pleasant-ness the passer-by; to help such have these pages, devoted to theFlower Garden, been penned. Our Canadian climate may not be the most favorable forlavish display of floral beauty, yet there are many beautifiilthings that wiU endure our climate, and, if it be necessary tobestow more thought and care upon the culture and protectionof the trees, shrubs, and plants which we desire to have aboutour dweUings than is requisite in more sunny climes, this verycare only heightens our enjoyment, and deepens our love for thethings we thiis cherish. Take courage, then; the Canadiansmotto is to make a path where he cannot find one, and if thefloral treasures of the tropics do not grow naturally in our northernland, we wiU. set about our homes those things which harmonizebetter with the natural features of our country, and compel. THE FLOWER GARDEN. 271 many of the plants of the tropics to blend their beauty andfragrance, during oui brief warm summers, with the hardierbeauties of our sterner climate. We possess a wealth of beauty in our Evergreens, and muchof comfort, too, for they can be so planted about the farm-stead as to shelter the buildings from the keen frost-laden blastsof winter, making the spot within their shielding influenceseveral degrees warmer, and a great many degrees more comfort-able, than out where the wind sweeps on with unbroken have a goodly number of these which are native to the soil,and those who wish to increase the variety may add to our ownWhite Spruce, Hemlock Spruce, Balsam Fir, White Pine, &o.,the Scotch and Austrian Pines, the Norway Spruce, and therarer, but equally hardy, Nordmans Fir and Eastern Spruce. We have deciduous trees, too, of great loveliness, and thesemay be so interspersed with the Evergreens as to heighten
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