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120 THE PHILADELPHIA FLORIST. [Auetwr 



cq Savoys, and all Winter Cabbage are of course planted; see thatp 

 they do not suffer from drought— they, like Celery, love soapsuds. — " 

 Onions as they ripen, must be taken up and left in the sun a day or so 

 to dry — rope them if there be leisure, they will keep so " any length 

 of time." Tomatoes — preserve the earliest and largest for seed; don't 

 neglect this. Take an early opportunity of getting the Turnep ground 

 ready, and by the end of the month watch some impending shower to 

 put in the seed. The strap-leaved Dutch is the most generally useful. 

 Don't forget the weeds — rake off the purslane besides hoeing it up. 



T. J. 



€\)t fkxM m\h Borftmlttital f onnial 



Philadelphia, August, 1852, 



Flora is now in her glory. Earth teems with flowers and fruits — 

 and it. seems but a day since Winter bade us adieu, dragging himself 

 reluctantly away from the path of Spring. Humanly desponding, all 

 trembled for the crops, which lay patiently waiting for the sun's rays 

 to bring them to maturity. Man is sometimes prone to impatience — 

 to despair of the future. We now cast our eyes upon immense vege 1 - 

 tables, borne by the willing soil, respondent to the anxious desires of 

 the arduous cultivator. The operative class begin to hope that prices 

 will fall amidst so much abundance ; and so they will. Plenty will 

 crown the industrious efforts of energetic labor, and the next frost will 

 find them prepared to meet the scowling blast. But such results are 

 not independent results of Nature's providence. They are the com- 

 bined effects of human foresight and toil. The certain consequences 

 of provisions made in accordance with natural laws. And Science 

 has much to do in such matters, no matter how unscientific may be 

 the operators. However independent of the schoolmaster or printer, 

 they have been taught by some agency, though they cannot tell and 

 do not inquire how it came. From the earliest times to the present 

 day, men have been gathering knowledge from observation of the cre- 

 ation around them, and of which they form an important portion, in 

 the study of the philosopher these observations have been classified, 

 important deductions drawn from them, which are denominated theo- 

 ries, and laughed at, at times, by merely practical men who do not 

 deem that theory is rather based on practice than practice on theory. 

 u This under worship of the selfish idol which men call the practical," 

 does more harm than is commonly imagined. The idea of vital force 

 to which cause the little understood phenomena of the flowing of the 

 sap, the germination of the quiet seed when committed to the earth, 

 and many other such occurrences against which we cannot close our 



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