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They will soon begin to put forth their thrifty shoots, in some six 

 weeks will present a fine show of beautiful flowers, and, if properly 

 managed, will continue blooming through the winter. If attacked 

 by the green-fly, the plant can be inverted in a strong decoction of 

 tobacco, or it can be fumigated by being placed under an inverted 

 barrel, with some burning tobacco. For window culture, the 

 Everblooming Roses are the best, and they should be ordered of 

 the nurseryman in suitable pots. This mode commends itself to 

 all ; it is within the reach of the daily laborer ; the seamstress 

 can have it in her window, and in the midst of her toilsome du- 

 ties, be reminded by its bright flowers, of many a green spot in 

 past days. It is especially suited to the means and leisure of the 

 operatives in our factories, many of whom have left the country 

 and all its green fields and pleasant flowers for the crowded city, 

 where they can have no garden, but simply this little pot to re- 

 mind them of past pleasures, and throw a gleam of sunshine over 

 their hours of relief from labor. It can be placed in their cham- 

 ber window, or in the windows of the factory, the high temperature 

 of which, if it has been brought from the chamber, will soon bring 

 out its foliage in great luxuriance and its flowers in beauty, and 

 be a pleasant object of care in the moments snatched from the 

 operations of the loom. To this class we would especially com- 

 mend the Rose, as thriving under simple treatment, as possessing, 

 more than any other flower, the elements of beauty, and tending 

 like other flowers to keep alive, in a crowded city, that freshness 

 and<purity of feeling that distinguished their country life, and 

 which, unless there exists an unusual perversion of the moral 

 faculties, must always result from an intimate acquaintance \vith 

 natural objects. 



