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THE CANADIAN H0RTICULTU1?IST, 



glow of liealth on the cheeks of the maidens who tend and care for 

 these lovely pets of Summer. They are the true Canadian daughters 

 who thus labor to make home attractive, and secure the love of father, 

 the approval of mother, the affection of brother, and finally gain for 

 themselves, as a just reward, the deep and lasting love of the appreciative 

 man, who has been watching and waitiiig to take as his wife to liis own 

 home, the girl who knows so well how to strew life's thorny path with 

 beautiful flowers. He knows, without further instruction, that she will 

 make that home an Eden. 



Many a time, weary with the day's hard digging, have the pains of 

 my own toils vanished when looking over and admiring the well-kept 

 borders of petunia, phlox, pansy, heliotrope, and asters, placed in front 

 of my humble cottage by the loving hands of those who know so well 

 the attractive force of flowers ; there have 1 sat, in the quiet glow of 

 golden sunset, enjoying to the full their brilliant tints and grateful 

 fragrance; the hard lines of life's toil for the time quite forgotten, in 

 delightful communion with these smiling daughters of Flora. Let us 

 then cultivate flowers, and have all tlie talk we can touching these 

 pledges of love from the full hand of nature. 



CYCLAMEN" PEESICUM. 



We wish to call attention to this beautiful and easily grown flower^ 

 both on account of the ease with 

 which it can be cultivated, es- 

 pecially as a window plant in a 

 oool room, and the abundance of 

 flowers which it will yield in the 

 months of January and February, 

 when flowers are greatly appre- 

 ciated. Probably many of our 

 readers are not familiar with it, and 

 therefore in order that they may 

 have a better idea of its general 

 appearance than can be given by 

 any description, we have obtained, 

 through the courtesy of Mr. Jas. Vick, of Eochester, N. Y., the ao- 



