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tive as our means will permit ; so if we want a few specimen 

 plants for large vases, what is more graceful than a dracaena 

 indivisa, the araucaria (Norfolk Island pine) makes a beautiful 

 plant either alone or in clumps, caladium esculentum is of easy 

 culture, only requiring plenty of water, as it has leaves of 

 immense size. For a choice selection, a bed of hardy hybrid 

 roses might be included and for a range of color, the General 

 Jacqueminot, a rich crimson ; Baron de Bonstettin, a dark red ; 

 Margaret Dickson, white, and Magna Charter bright pink. 



FLOWERS— THEIR USE— ARRANGEMENT. 

 By Miss B. P. Sanborn, Ben Venue Greenhouse, Augusta. 



The uses for flowers are so many and varied that it will be 

 impossible for me to name them all, even if I could. It must be 

 true, however, that Providence had great good in view, for we 

 find them everywhere, on mountain tops, in valleys, in marshes 

 and bogs, on tablelands, in our mowing fields, by the roadside in 

 the far North where the sun shines only a few months in the year. 

 If vegetation starts at all it is in a solid carpet of perfect tiny- 

 flowers. In our climate we have great variety, in the tropics the 

 richest abundance, in fact, they are everywhere. 



We read that in France there are acres and acres of roses 

 grown for the sole purpose of attar of roses for the world's 

 market. Rose leaves are preserved and used with spices for Pot- 

 pourri jars, we have also opium from the poppy, the arnica plant 

 grown under our feet, taraxacum from the dandelion and thou- 

 sands of other things familiar to the professor of science, all 

 made from flowers, their stems, seeds, bark or roots, besides the 

 numerous perfumes and extracts with which the market is filled. 



I found very wonderful histories of some of our familiar 

 flowers and trees when I begun on my paper, and here is one 

 good use to be mentioned to the young people, which is to take 

 time to trace the origin, growth, life, character and language of 

 these interesting plants. 



I read in Henderson's "Handbook of Plants" "that the almost 

 innumerable varieties of pansies, embracing any color from white 

 to black, maroon, yellow, purple, blue, self-colored and those with 

 the most delicate markings as well as the bold and showy faces of 



