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the winter, charity was called upon to help support his family, and yet when 

 the sun came out warm and bright, and he had secured work, the first thought 

 was about the flowers to make a poor home more cheerful. Evidently no prince 

 or peer derives more pleasure from his superior station than does this farm 

 laborer from his flowers. After all it is not the wealth one has that brings 

 happiness and makes life enjoyable, but the "sweet content" that pervades 

 the heart and home. — Floral Monthly. 



FLOWERS OX THE TABLE. 



Set flowers on your table — a whole nose-gay if you can get it, or but two or 

 three or a single flower — a rose, a pink, a daisy, and you have something that 

 reminds you of God's creation, and gives you a link with the poets that have 

 done it most honor. Flowers on the morning table are especially suited to 

 them. They look like the happy wakening of the creation ; they bring the 

 perfume of the breath of nature into your room ; they seem the very repre- 

 sentative and embodiment of the every smile of your home, the graces of good 

 morrow; proofs that some intellectual beauties are in ourselves or those about 

 us, some Aurora (if we are so lucky as to have such a companion) helping to 

 strew our life with sweetness, or in ourselves some masculine wilderness not 

 unworthy to possess such a companion or unlikely to gain her. — Leigh Hunt. 



MIGNONNETTE AS A TREE. 



Choose a straight young plant; tie it to a slender stick; keep the side shoots 

 nipped from the lower part of the plant, but let all the single leaves remain, 

 also, the side shoots on the upper portion. When the flower buds form, nip 

 them off; a multitude of young shoots will put out after this; when they have 

 grown to be three or four inches long a few of them must be selected, and the 

 balance cut away. The number will depend on the size and strength of the 

 plant ; certainly not more than eight should be left ; six would be better. They 

 must be equal distances apart, and should be trained to a small hoop supported, 

 at the proper height. The second flower buds may be left on, but before they 

 open a second hoop must be added to the trellis, and the branches secured, 

 symmetrically to it. Be careful to remove every flower before any seed-pods 

 have time to form. This system of pruning and training is to be carried on 

 and in the course of time the stems and branches will become woody, and the 

 "tree" will bloom almost constantlv. — Prairie Farmer. 



THE MULLEIN. 



The common a mullein, regarded as but a common coarse weed in this country, 

 and so common in fields as to often prove a nuisance, is cultivated in England 

 for its beauty. A writer in the Gardeners' Chronicle says that it "is well 

 worth the attention of both amateur and professional gardeners." It seems 



