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that the happiness of mankind may be increased 

 by encouraging that love of a garden, that love of 

 the beautiful which is innate in us all. Get a man 

 out of the dram and beer-shops into the fresh pure 

 air, interest him in the marvellous works of his 

 God, instead of in the deformities of vice, give 

 him an occupation which will add to his health 

 and the comforts of his family, instead of destroy- 

 ing both, then build Revealed upon Natural Re- 

 ligion, and hope to see him a Christian. 



In one of the most genial and gratifying 

 notices with which this book has been favored, 

 the Saturday Reviezver gladdened my heart, con- 

 firmed my belief, and stimulated my endeavors, 

 by endorsing these my views on the subject. 

 "From this love of flowers," he writes, ''may be 

 learned the road, difficult to find in these days, to 

 the inner heart of the lower classes — the key to 

 tastes, dearer to them than beer-swilling — the 

 secret, which, if rightly applied by those who 

 bear spiritual rule over the working man, may do 

 much directly to civilize, and indirectly to Chris- 

 tianize him." 



There are difficulties, of course, in this as in all 

 good works. There are difficulties with regard to 

 cottage- gardening, even in those villages where 

 priest and squire co-operate heartily, and these 



