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crease any part of the family they happen to pos- 

 sess. If tried once, and successfully, the experi- 

 ment will, no doubt, be renewed, and an innocent 

 pride indulged in increasing the power of minis- 

 tering to one's own taste, or of gratifying that of 

 a friend. Many suffer a latent predilection for 

 these fascinating pursuits to die away, from the 

 idea of not possessing the skill requisite for culti- 

 vating plants ; others think of the expense they 

 would be led into by an unwarrantable indulgence. 

 If the more fortunate or more skilful amateur 

 knows of such persons, he will greatly promote 

 both their mental and bodily welfare, by present- 

 ing them with a few plants of easiest culture, to 

 prove to them how easy it is, not only to nurture, 

 but to multiply their sources of pleasure, as health- 

 ful as it is innocent. If any of our readers have a 

 spark of this taste within them, we say, cherish it 

 as you would cherish 2i friend. To the ladies, espe- 

 cially, a love of floriculture brings with it, in every 

 period of life, a train of pure enjoyments. "Whilst 

 the city belle blushes her delight at the sight of 

 the magnificent bouquet destined to grace her fair 

 hand in the haunts of pleasure — the face of the 

 country maiden glows with still purer satisfaction 

 as she presents to a parent the rose which her 



