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the art, knowing that if people comprehend them, they need not have a "botched-up" 

 job forced upon them. To succeed in landscaping one must have a general knowledge of 



FLORICULTURE. 



Who is there that does not love a flower some flower? Well, there are such, but, 

 thank fortune, they are but few. Imagine a world without music, birds and flowers ! 

 We would want to emigrate, would we not ? The author of this work has nothing more 

 indelibly fixed on the mind than "grandmother's flower garden." How he and his 

 brothers and sisters used to delight to visit this paradise around the thatched cottage. 

 What thrifty "ear-drops" (fuchsias)! How charming the roses! How fragrant the 

 wall-flowers, sweet-williams and stocks ! And how our little hearts bounded with joy 

 when grandma gave us each a sweet bouquet, kissed us and said, "Give my love to 

 mother and father; good-bye, come again." Who can begin to measure the elevating 

 and purifying effects of flowers? No wonder the Great Teacher gave the world the text, 

 "Consider the lilies, horv they grow. " The (almost) universal love of flowers is one of 



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