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the frame ground and tlie kitchen garden. On the other side, tke 

 rear walk is reached from the main walk by an opening near the 

 engine-house ; this affords the family an agreeable entrance to the 

 fruit and kitchen garden plots, without coming into contact with 

 heaps of manure, and the usual accompaniments of rough garden 

 work. As for flower-beds, it is best as a rule to omit tliem from 

 such a plan as this, but it will be seen that there is abundant space 

 left for them at the upper end of the lawn, next the terrace, and in 

 various places next the walk all round. S. H. 



VIOLETS IX riCTIOX AND IN TAG I. 



" Long as there are violets 

 They shall have a name in story." 



flower we have is so generally known and loved as the 

 Violet. Not only is it sought after and admired by 

 those living among clear streams and ever-verdant 

 fields, but it is recognized and loved even by the young 

 "Arabs" of our great metropolis, who have never 

 breathed the pure air of heaven, or listened to the mournful sighing 

 of the woods ; yet they have often been arrested by the delicious 

 perfume vrafted from the basket of the flower-girl in front of the 

 Koyal Exchange, and have paused, and admired, and wondered. 

 And see the eftect they have upon the masses hurrying on thinking 

 only of business. There is one rushing past as though his life 

 depended on his haste ; but the odour of the violets stops him sud- 

 denly, and hastily producing his penny, he fastens the little bunch 

 in his button-hole, and feels for a time as though he was breathing 

 the pure balmy air of spring, amid the smoke, and mud, and din. 



The violet has claimed as large a share of the people's love as the 

 rose itself, and has served to inspire many of the happiest lays of 

 the poets. Moore has chosen for a subject the Eeast of Eoses, and 

 Leigh Hunt made selection of a Eeast of Violets. Of course such 

 a lovely flower was attributed b}- the ancients to divine origin ; thus 

 mythology relates that when the master of the gods (Jupiter), in 

 order to preserve his dear lo from the furious jealousy of her legiti- 

 mate spouse, changed her into a heifer, he caused the prairies on 

 which she lived to be carpeted with violets. According to another 

 version, Jupiter, while travelling through Ionic (Asia Minor), was 

 presented by a nymph with some violets, as being among the most 

 precious things the country produced. The elder Eapin also attri- 

 butes a celestial origin to tlie violet ; according to him, Diana, in 

 order to preserve one of her nymphs from the ardent pursuits of 

 Apollo, turned her inlo a violet. But how^ever interesting the 

 mythology of the ancients may be, and although their beautiful 

 allegories and delightful superstitions may add considerably to our 



