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will gain in health, strength and added interest in life. I know this 

 is so from my own e:ftperience. I can feel and sympathize with 

 every housewife in her continuous toil and care for every 

 member of her household, until at times she is so weary that 

 she wonders if life is worth the living and feels as though she would 

 fain fold her hands in eternal rest. At such times step into the 

 garden ; take a puff of fresh air away from the heated stove, and be 

 refreshed, strengthened and brightened up before the gude nion 

 and the bairns come in to their usual meal. Put a bouquet on the 

 table, and he will think his courting days have come again. 



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This is a very nice syringa from Oregon. The flowers are 

 much larger than those of our ordinary garden syringa, and the 



SYRINGA COIyUMBIANA. 



plant is more compact. I think it the best syringa that we have ever 

 grown on our grounds. We have had it something like ten years, 

 and it has scarcely been injured in any winter during that time. 



