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Ethiopia, is ready to stretch out her hands unto God, whenever 

 her children can agree to be happy, to live peaceably together, 

 and mutually to aid and comfort one another. No good reason 

 seems to exist why all nations may not learn to read alike from 

 the volume of nature, of which flowers form a bright, glowing 

 alphabet. Gladly would we see the means of cultivating flow- 

 ers in the hands of every son and daughter of our race. It is 

 the universality of flowers, rather than the aristocratic green- 

 house, which is to bless and harmonize the world. 



And here we cannot forbear to mention a most aggravated 

 evil, that there are seedsmen of the present day, who at high 

 prices sell seeds, not one in a hundred of which, they well know, 

 will vegetate, and of those which do germinate, scarcely one to 

 a hundred will prove true to their label. To obviate this evil, 

 many cultivators are returning to the good old way of raising 

 their own seeds from their choicest stocks, and exchanging 

 their superabundance for other choice varieties with their neigh- 

 bors. 



It should be known that more than twenty choice varieties of 

 flower seeds may be sent three thousand miles for one letter 

 stamp. The Andover Horticultural Society, which has been in 

 successful operation four years, has taken advantage of this 

 governmental privilege, and gathered to itself rich treasures 

 from all sections of the globe. Besides its transatlantic ex- 

 changes, it has within the past year exchanged more than six 

 hundred packages of many varieties of seeds, with individuals in 

 seventeen difierent States of the Union. No seed of a beautiful 

 flower, no element of a desirable vegetable, should be wasted. 

 Somebody wants it, and will gladly repay in something more 

 valuable to you all your cost in transferring it to them. We 

 cannot close without saying, that the refined taste of the citizens 

 of Haverhill has come up most admirably to this occasion, and 

 proved themselves worthy "to have and to hold" frequent sim- 

 ilar exhibitions in their beautiful town. Nor would we neglect 

 mentioning the exquisite presentations of Michael Moriarty, 

 who, as the gardener of Samuel Lawrence, Esq., is universally 

 acknowledged the "Michael Angelo" of floriculture in Ando- 

 ver. Nor less meritorious is John Hart, of Gen. H. K, Oliver's 

 garden, whose magnificent dahlias have not been equalled the 

 present season at any horticultural exhibition in the State. The 



