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EVERY WOMAN HER OWN FLOWER GARDENER. 



This hardly seems a fair criticism upon our homes. Haying been 

 an enthusiastic loyer of flowers from childhood, and haying cultiyated 

 them eyer since the use of the hands was learned, I cannot recognize 

 its truth ; — haye neyer known of many such houses, as he describes. Yet 

 many American writers will declare that slender porticos, fanciful 

 yerandas, sculptured gables, and deep bay windows are often seen in 

 this country, without a yestige of a flower or climbing yine about them ; 

 while in England, the poorest laborei^s cot is a bower of greenery; and 

 his little plat of flowers, often yies with that of his employer. 



It is not always wealth or art that giyes to English homes their 

 beauty and picturesqueness, but it is the attention of their inmates, to 

 the cultiyation of the "Green tilings of the earths 



It is not the latticed casement nor the high gable that attracts the 

 notice of the trayeler, but the brilliant flowers and the trailing yines 

 that drape and embower them. 



American women liye in-doors too much, and thus sacrifice their 

 health and spirits. They cultiyate neuralgia, dyspepsia, and all their 

 attendant ills — rather than the beautiful and glorious flowers which 

 God has scattered so abundantly all oyer the world. 



This little pamjDhlet is written for the purpose of coaxing them to 

 come out into the sunshine, and begging them to 



List to Nature's teachings.'* 



A little garden, all one's own, is a real Eden I Earth possesses no 

 greater charm; and there is no cosmetic equal to the fresh, sweet morn- 

 ing air, and the cheerful sunshine. 



You can make no inyestment which will giye you such interest; 

 health, happiness, and pure enjoyment will be the coin in which it is 

 paid ; and the returns are not made semi-annually, but daily. 



With what intense delight one watches the first tiny leayes of the 

 seeds one has planted ; and what pleasure one takes in the unfolding 

 of the first flower ! A grand garden cared for by a gardener, can neyer 

 giye its possessor as much delight as one in which nearly all the work 

 is done by one's own hands. 



To be sure, Pat O'Shoyelem's aid is needful to prepare the ground, lay 

 out the beds, and harden the walks; but, gentler, smaller hands can 

 plant the seeds and roots, can keep down the weeds, tie up, stake, train, 

 water and prune. 



