THE FLOEAL WORLD AND GARDEN QUIDE. 



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A NEW OCCUPATION FOE ENGLISHWOMEN. 



"As to the othei' department of female 

 industry to which we have adverted, it is 

 in reality a mine of wealth which our Eng- 

 lishwomen have not ventured to touch. 

 Brass buttons twisted on corkscrews will 

 not command a high price in the market ; 

 b;idly cut rose leaves blossoming at their 



tips Into violets, or hearing acorn berries in 

 their axils, are evidences that schools of art 

 have not yet produced all the fruit pre- 

 dicted of them. Tlie exquisite imitations 

 of Nature which are imported into this 

 country from France annihilate every 

 cliance of the amelioration of the lot of 



