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pendent families on the other hand. These conditions are met 

 and before our eyes in all parts of our common country, and will 

 have to be endured as long as avarice holds control of our nation 

 and the people bow in humble submission to its cruel mandates. 

 A perfect home will probably never be found upon this mundane 

 sphere; but the nighest approach to one will be found where the 

 best kept kitchen, garden and orchard are found and presided over 

 and managed by the family themselves so far as possible. Add to 

 these other essentials and luxuries of the home as fast as circum- 

 stances will admit, but never to the neglect of the former. 



"Idleness is the devil's workshop," where all the alluring de- 

 vices are manufactured to draw the young and unguarded away from 

 the j)ath of duty and rectitude. 



Children seek amusements and will have them, and whenever 

 we allow our avarice and greed for gain to engross our attention to 

 the neglect of providing liome attractions and amusements, and 

 they have to go elsewhere to find them, we will find that we have 

 neglected a great and important duty to ourselves and family; and 

 may be called upon before life closes to witness the humiliating 

 scene of seeing our property squandered to pay the penalty of our 

 neglect; but may have the satisfaction of learning, though late, 

 that the home may be aided and embellished with money when 

 properly used; and that the first conditions of a true home are 

 priceless, and can never be bought. 



CARE OF TENDER ROSES OVER WINTER. 



BY S. L. PH(EN"IX, CHARLESTON". 



How to keep tender roses over winter is a question with most 

 rose growers. From the fact that so few are successful, I have 

 been led to experiment with many tender sorts — Tea, Bourbon and 

 others — to satisfy myself whether it was worth the trouble, or each 

 spring to replace with young plants. To state the case in another 

 way, we buy our plants, set them out carefully, cultivate, and feel 

 amply rewarded as bud after bud unfolds, always, however, tinged 

 with the reflection that old Jack Frost would soon check their career; 

 alas, in most cases for all time. Occasionally a few survive, why? 

 that is the secret. 



