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enliven the earth, in sweetness, purity, and fragrance, 

 none can approach the rose. The most pains-taking 

 labors of the naturalist, and the skillfulcst combina- 

 tions of the botanist in hybridizing and perfecting the 

 finest of all other flowers, have never yet produced a 

 rival to its simple, stainless beauty. JSTo place can 

 be complete without its "rosary," gracefully disposed 

 and highly cultivated. "We commend it, as one of the 

 most grateful objects of attention, to the female in- 

 mates of the dwelling. It is scarcely necessary to 

 remark, that the rosary should be within the imme- 

 diate view of the windows of the best and most fre- 

 quented apartments of the house. — Ed. 



The American Garden is another special depart- 

 ment of the flower-garden, and is consecrated to the 

 growth of those shrubs and other flowering plants 

 which thrive best in a peaty soil. It by no means 

 holds good that all these plants are natives of America, 

 though undoubtedly the greater part of them come 

 from that continent. We refer to the rhododendrons, 

 azaleas, kalmias, andromedas, etc., which, growing 

 spontaneously in the temperate regions of both the old 

 continent and the new, and being sufficiently hardy 

 to endure the climate of Great • Britain, contribute 

 very largely to the beauty of our gardens and dressed 

 grounds. It is desirable that they 'should have a sep- 

 arate department allotted to them ; but they should 

 not be confined to it, for they maybe scattered through- 

 out all the ' shrubberies in the place. When in a dis- 

 tinct locality, and well arranged, the American garden 

 may be made the most permanently evergreen portion 

 of the grounds, and therefore may not inaptly be de- 

 nominated the Pleasure-ground Winter Garden. As 



