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Prairie Flowers Suitable for Cultivation 

 in Gardens, 



BY REV. W. A. BURMAN. 



April 12th, 1897. 



The praises of our prairie flowers have been sung- by 

 man}' a traveller, and justly so, for he must be dull indeed, 

 who can travel over our vast plains, resplendent with the 

 colours of millions of flowers, and not be oblig-ed to confess 

 their beauty. To the immigrants from eastern Canada, still 

 more to those who have crossed the Atlantic to find a new 

 home here, the prairie flowers are very welcome. They are 

 somewhat of a cure for homesickness, and help to reconcile 

 many a strug-g-ling- man, and still more lonely woman, to the 

 new home. 



But our purpose at present is to see how we can best use 

 these gifts of God's kind hand, to beautify our homes in this 

 new land ; how we may best utilize our native flowers, so 

 that they may not altogether "waste their sweetness on the 

 desert air." Thoug-h this is my purpose, I had better confess 

 that personally, I never find flowers look just as beautiful 

 anywhere as in their native haunts. There is something- in 

 the fitness of their natural environment, which gives to them 

 a peculiar charm, altog-ether or greatly lacking-, when we 

 have removed them to either house or garden. 



In speaking- of the fitness of wild flowers for cultivation, 

 we have to consider several points : 



1st. The beauty and value of flowers. 



2nd. The conditions necessary to ensure its successful 

 culture. 



3rd. The objections, if any, to its introduction. 



