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plants, and there were the proprietors, showing 

 me proudly the stems from which such and such 

 favorites were cut, and pointing to various healthy 

 and handsome rose-buds, which, though belonging 

 to junior branches of the family, gave promise of 

 equal beauty. 



How was it done ? De V abondancc du coeiw — 

 from a true love of the Rose. " It's more nor a 

 mile from my house to my garden," said one of 

 these enthusiasts to me, " but I've been here for 

 weeks, in the winter months, every morning before I 

 went to my work, and every evening when I came 

 from it, and not seldom at noon as well, here and 

 back, and my dinner to get, between twelve and 

 one o'clock." " How do you afford," I inquired 

 from another, " to buy these new and expensive 

 varieties ?" and I would that every employer, that 

 every one who cares for the laboring poor, would 

 remember the answer, reflect, and act on it. '' I'll 

 tell you," he said, "how I managed to buy 'em 

 — by keepijig aivay from the bcershops !'' 



From a lady who lives near Nottingham, and 

 goes much among the poorer classes, I heard a far 

 more striking instance of this floral devotion than 

 from the florists themselves. While conversing 

 with the wife of a mechanic during the coldest 

 period of a recent winter, she observed that the 



