176 PROPAGATION OF ROSES. 



God has permitted us to bask, as it were, in his 

 visible smiles, and every Christian will love him 

 better for loving the glowing proof of that good- 

 ness which disdains not to minister 'to every inno- 

 cent pleasure of his creature man. We feel we. 

 have perhaps digressed too far, but every lover 

 of horticulture will understand how we have been 

 led away; and to others we can only ,repeat, 

 " Try to love flowers learn to cultivate them ; 

 it will make you happier, it will make you better." 



