Un FAMILIAR GAUIiEX FLOWERS 



plant that is supplied with more water than it can swallnv/ 

 is in a very unhappy predicament. We have lately seen 

 an interesting exliibition — a gentleman engaged to judge 

 at a children's tlower-show blindfolded. The plants were 

 handed to him, and he judged them by the wenjlil . All 

 the heavy ones he condemned ; and in this case he was 

 right, for all the heavy ones were bad. But in regard of 

 the light ones he made a few mistakes ; l>ut generally 

 sjjeaking, the light ones were good, but not so uniformly 

 as to justify the principle on which he relied. But how 

 instructive to us all is this judging of plants by their 

 u'ciirht ! 



