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thej are sure to bloom when their time comes ; and if the old plants 

 are kept in winter, and a few of the best-rooted suckers are potted 

 in April or May, the sorts may be kept from year to year, and the 

 cultivator may become expert iu producing dwarf, bushy plants, 

 loaded, not only with dozens, but hundreds of flowers. 



Tlie lists have been arranged, so as iu a great measure to render 

 further observation unnecessary. "We again recommend a perusal of 

 the paper on "Amateur's Greenhouse," in the Gtaeden Obacle for 

 1861, because in it will be found minute instructions on pottino-, 

 propagating, training, and blooming, which it would be unwise to 

 repeat, and to which we could add but little. The writer has for 

 many years past furnished flowering plants for the window of an 

 invalid wife, whose enjoyment of garden scenes has been contracted 

 to this last resource of the sufferer fond of flowers. The task has been 

 equally delightful and instructive ; and one of its results is the con- 

 viction that ten times the number of subjects enumerated in the 

 almanack might be included in a list of flowers for every day in the 

 year. But there is another point of no small importance, and that 

 is, as to the influence of plants in rooms upon the health of the 

 inmates. Much that has been said on this subject needs to be 

 unsaid. A large number of plants in full bloom would undoubtedly 

 be prejudicial in a sleeping apartment ; and the more powerful the 

 odours of the flowers, the more baneful their efl'ect. But a few 

 healthy plants in an airy apartment need not be dreaded as agents 

 of death ; and the relief they aftbrd to the mind may often prove 

 the best possible medicine for the body. But there are few who 

 would be so unwise as to crowd a sleeping-room with plants ; and it 

 is but right we should caution our friends against keeping highly- 

 scented flowers in a bed-room at any time, except for an hour or 

 two. S. H, 



THE TWO STEEAMS. 



Upox a leafy mountain height two streams came gnshing forth, 

 One bubbled from the suuTiy south, the other from the north ; 

 One leaped and sparkled joyously, as clear as summer sky,'j 

 The purple flood the other rolled went slowly creeping by. 



Beside the one green rushes grew, and blushing buds and flowers ; 

 Beside the other, men were chained in poison-breathing bowers ; 

 One welcomed sweet wild birds, to sing their hymns of praise and joy ; 

 The other breathed the breath of sin, and tempted to destroy. 



The one went sparkling cheerily beneath the noon-day sun. 



And spread around life, health, and peace, where'er it chanced to run ; 



The other was the stream of death, with sorrow on its tide : 



And whoso stooped to drink therein must Satan's curse abide. 



The stream which gave such joy to all leaped from a rocky well ; 

 The vineyard sent the other forth to work a death-like spell ; 

 They both have flowed for countless years adown the steeps of time ; 

 One spreading grief and wickedness, the other bliss sublime. 



