quet making, and is called Bouquet Green. They are both kept by florists, and sold at about 

 $5.00 a barrel. In smaller quantities the Ground Pine is sold at 25 cents a pound, and the 

 Running Pine in packages of ten yards for 50 cents. We give engravings 

 showing the appearance of each kind, the first one being the Running Pine,, 

 and its adaptation to light festoon 

 work will be readily understood. 

 The Lycopodiums seem to delight 

 in high hills and cold situations. 



We have advised the use of a 

 few bright berries wherever they 

 can be obtained, for lighting up 

 the sombre evergreens used for winter decoration. In 

 England the Holly furnishes the most brilliant scarlet, 

 and the Mistletoe the purest white. In many sections 

 of America the American Holly, Ilex opaca, leaves 

 nothing to be desired in the way of a scarlet berry, 

 while in others the Winter Berry, Ilex verticillata, ENGLISH HOLLY. 



/ , illuminates moist places until late in the winter. 



Another Holly, Ilex lisvigata, known as the 

 Smooth Winter Berry, abounds in the West, 

 we believe. We have a good many other berry- 

 bearing plants that furnish the most elegant 

 berries in the world, but unfortunately they are 

 usually destroyed by frosts and storms before 

 Holiday time; but some of them may be pre- 

 served in a cool, damp cellar, the stems being 

 placed in water. Among them we would name 

 the Strawberry Shrub, Mountain Ash, Snow 

 Berry and Bitter Sweet, all of which are elegant, 

 WINTER BERRY, (ILEX VERTICILLATA.) but the Strawberry Shrub produces, we sometimes 



think, the most beautiful berry in the world. At the time we write this, November 22d, the 

 Euonymus Shrubs are ablaze with beauty. 



BUTTON-HOLE FLOWERS. 



It is not loug ago, at least it does not seem long to us, when any gentleman who wore a 

 flower in the button-hole of his coat, or any lady who adorned hair or dress with a few flowers, 



would be thought vain, 

 silly, foppish, etc. We 

 well remember, some 

 years since, when spend- 

 ing a day or two with 

 some English friends 

 between Port Hope and 

 Rice Lake, once when 

 we were in the carriage, 

 just ready to start on an 

 excursion, the gentle- 

 man hastily jumped from 

 the carriage, requesting 

 the driver to wait a min- 

 ute, as he had forgotten 

 the button-hole flowers. 

 He soon returned from 

 the garden with flowers 



for all, which soon adorned coats and dresses. It seemed very strange for an old gentleman 

 to act so, and yet it was very thoughtful and pretty. Flowers are now worn on all festive 

 occasions, even in this country, and nowhere are they more prized. 



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BUTTON-HOLE BOUQUET. 



BUTTON-HOLE FLOWER. 



