The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . for the solace of ordinary humanity. Children love them;quiet, tender, contented, ordinary people love them as they grow; luxurious and disorderlypeople rejoice in them gathered. They are the cottagers treasure; and in the crowdedtown, mark, as with a little broken fragment of rainbow, the windows of the workers, inwhose hearts rests the covenant of peace. To the child and the girl, to the peasant andmanufacturing operative, to the grisette and the nun, the lover and monk, they are preciousalways.—RusKlN. God might have made the ear
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . for the solace of ordinary humanity. Children love them;quiet, tender, contented, ordinary people love them as they grow; luxurious and disorderlypeople rejoice in them gathered. They are the cottagers treasure; and in the crowdedtown, mark, as with a little broken fragment of rainbow, the windows of the workers, inwhose hearts rests the covenant of peace. To the child and the girl, to the peasant andmanufacturing operative, to the grisette and the nun, the lover and monk, they are preciousalways.—RusKlN. God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small,The Oak tree and the Cedar tree, Williout a flower at might have made enough, enough, For every want of ours,For luxury, medicine and toil, And yet have made no flowers. Our outward life requires them not, Then wherefore have they birth ?To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth !To comfort man—to whisper hope, Whereer his faith is dim,For whoso careth for the flowers Will much more care for Him !. Editorial Notes. A Jtnmble among the Flower Crfowers. The editor of The Mchigan Farmer has been rambling among the greenhouses of his vicinity,and gives his readers notes of a few old and new things. While taking a saunter in the grounds of our friend Adair, the other morning, we took a glance atsome plants that were beginning to make a very pretty show. Among them were some of the newzonale geraniums, over which we note they are making some considerable noise in Europe. Quite ahandsome variety is the Belle of Detroit, a new variety grown from the seed by Mr. Provis, of thiscity, and the stock of which has been purchased by Mr. Adair. This variety has a neat, close habit,and makes a well-shaped plant with a handsome scarlet truss of flowers. But with the zonales thefoliage is the charm, and the Belle of Detroit is clothed with neat, well-shaped leaves of a pale greenishyellow, with a dark bronze zone, that renders it quite
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