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bless the bans, and pray, after my poor fasliion of reading prayers, " that your 

 sons may be as plants grown up in tlieir youth; tliat your daughters may be as 

 corner stones polished after the similitude of a palace; that your garners may 

 be full, affording all manner of store, that your sheep may bring forth thousands 

 and tens of thousands ; that your oxen may be strong to labor, that tlicre be 

 no breaking in, nor going out, that there be no complaining among you ; for 

 happy is tliat people that is in such a case, yea happy is that people whose God 

 is the Lord." 



Mr. Moody, of Lockport, a member of the Western Xew York llorticnliural 

 Society, made a few remarks upon tlie subject of tlie paper just given. Among 

 other things he said that there was nothing that interested him more than the 

 question of the employment of evergreens for embellishment and for screens. 

 He believed we would see the day when our roads would be lined with ever- 

 greens and our farms crossed by them. Pasturing in most localities, he 

 thought, was beginning to be felt as poor economy, so that fences for barriers 

 to cattle could be replaced by lines of evergreens, wliich would be a great pro- 

 tection from the winds that sweep with such energy over our deniided country. 

 He felt that as a matter of wise economy this must be adopted quite generally. 

 He gave the example of his own farm, where he had planted rows of evergreens 

 once in thirty rods, and was reaping the benefits already. 



Mrs. A. E. Green, of Farmington, Oakland county, gave the next paper 

 upon 



FLOWER GARDENING AS A HOME ACCOMPANIMENT. 



It may surprise some, that in the season of snow, we should speak of flowers. 

 But the sweet blossoms which always seem to come fresh from the Creator's 

 hands are just as welcome to the lover of the beautiful in one season as another. 

 Besides if we cannot have flowers in the garden, vrc can have flowers in the 

 parlor. 



To make home cheerful indoors during the long winters of the north, there 

 is nothing that compares with flowering plants. They are a constant delight. 

 Each day brings out new leaves, and buds, and blossoms, and new forms of 

 loveliness. With house-plants as with all other things, success is essential to 

 enjoyment. There is pleasure in having plants as much as possible the work of 

 our own skill, grown from seeds and cuttings, and trained by ourselves. Wc 

 will endeavor to give a fewsufrgestions that may be useful to some. We do not 

 propose to instruct those who have greenhouses, but to give (as we have been 

 solicited), our own experience. 



Plants, like ourselves, need air, light, warmth, food, and drink. Where 

 good earth is used in potting plants they seldom need any other fertilizer. 

 The best soil for plants is found in old meadows. A pile of sods laid up 

 to rot make excellent potting earth. Nearly all plants will grow in earth from 

 the woods, or very rich sandy soil, or even in sand with any good fertilizer and 

 well watered, 



Azalias, begonias, cacti, calla lilies, camellias, fuchsias, dracenas, daphnes 

 (kept wet), with geraniums, jessamines, justicias, myrtles, oxalis, oleanders, 

 passifloras, these with Bengal and Tea roses, will make an ample variety for 

 three or four windows, and offer bloom the whole season. 



Plants should never be watered while the rays of the sun arc pouring directly 



