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PARSO^^S OX THE ROSE. 



window, and turned around every week, in order to give 

 each side of the plant its share of light. They will soon 

 begin to put forth their thrifty shoots, in some six weeks 

 will present a fine show of beautiful flowers, and, if prop- 

 erly managed, will continue blooming through the winter. 

 If attacked by the green-fly, the plant can be inverted in 

 a strong decoction of tobacco, or it can be fumigated by 

 being placed under an inverted barrel, or other re- 

 ceptacle, with some burning tobacco. For window cul- 

 ture, the Everblooming Roses are the best, and they 

 should be ordered of the nurseryman in suitable pots. 

 This mode commends itself to all ; it is within the reach 

 of the daily laborer ; the seamstress can have it in her 

 window, and in the midst of her toilsome duties, be re- 

 minded by its bright flowers of many a green spot in 

 past days. It is especially suited to the means and leisure 

 of the operatives in our factories, many of whom have 

 left the country and all its green fields and pleasant flow- 

 ers for the crowded city, where they can have no garden, 

 but simply this little pot to remind them of past pleasures, 

 and throw a Heam of sunshine over their hours of relief 

 from labor. The plant can be placed in their chamber 

 window, or in the windows of the factory, where the high 

 temperature, if it has been brought from the chamber, 

 will soon bring out its foliage in great luxuriance, and its 

 floAvers in beauty, and be a pleasant object of care in the 

 moments snatched from the operations of the loom. To 

 this class we would especially commend the Rose ; as 

 thriving under simjDle treatment, as possessing, more than 

 any other flower, the elements of beauty, and tending, 

 like other flowers, to keep alive in a crowded city that 

 freshness and purity of feeling that distinguished their 

 country life, and which, unless there exists an unusnal 

 perversion of the moral faculties, must always result 

 from an intimate acquaintance with natural objects. 



