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reason pays no compliment to our taste or refinement. Away with 

 the thought tliat refinement is to he found only in the city, that coun- 

 try cousin means something wanting in the appreciation or expression 

 of grace and beauty. If it be so, why is it? Where are forms of grace 

 and beauty set forth with hand so lavish as in the country? Where 

 are models so fresh and pure, just sprung from the hand of Him 

 whose every creation is but the expression of grace, to be found as here ? 

 With these before us continually are we to grow rude and coarse ? Nay, 

 let it not be; let us open the eye to the beautiful things the bountiful 

 Father has given us, let us cluster them around our dwellings, let us edu- 

 cate our love of the bright, and beautiful, and graceful, until our country 

 homes in their surroundings shall, be the expression of the refined and 

 lovely spirit that reigns within them. We make our lives weary with 

 heavy toil, and think we have neither time nor strength for these mere 

 adornments. In the days of pioneer life, when the battle for subsist- 

 ence is stern and unremitting, perhaps there may be a necessity in 

 neglecting the finer instincts of our nature. Yes, perhaps ; for how 

 many a pioneer's cabin have we seen garlanded with flowers; but let 

 that be accepted ; the pioneer days of our readers have long since 

 passed. We forget that the mere adornments, as we like to call these 

 things, both tell what we are, and have to do with making us what 

 we are. For the children's sake then let the influence of home within 

 and without be loving and lovely, that their early appreciation of the 

 beautiful may expand and grow with their growth, and that in their 

 communion with grace and refinement, as expressed in these refined 

 and graceful creations, they may drink in the true spirit of gentleness 

 with manliness. 



HORTICULTURAL GOSSIP. 



BY LINUS WOOLVERTON, GRIMSBY, ONT. 



The Peach. — I do not see why the scientific names of our fruits 

 should not sometimes be used in our horticultural journals. Students 

 of botany and entomology in their journals are very particular to speak 

 of the different species by their scientific names, and it seems to me 

 that if we were occasionally to do the same in practical horticulture it 



