DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
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of a good wall of earth, stone, or brick, or by a tight board 
fence or quickset hedge. If it be of a good size, and properly- 
attended to, it will afford an abundance of fruit for family use. 
Cherry and plum trees may be planted nearest the house, as 
they are not so liable to be attacked by pilferers and birds ; 
summer pears and apples next, and winter and baking sorts 
farthest off. Gooseberries, currants, and strawberries will 
grow between the standard trees, or around the plots of vege- 
tables. Raspberries and flowers may be planted along the 
borders and walks. Peaches, apricots, nectarines, vines, and 
figs may . be trained on the sunny sides of the buildings or 
walls. 
Flowers should be cultivated in every garden, especially if 
it be near the house ; in which case, if not in every other, the 
space certainly ought not to be limited to the production of 
vegetables alone, but should contain the omamcnt.il as well as 
the useful. Too much time and space, however, must not be 
devoted to flowers. Over the porch or around the door of the 
house, a few hardy, tall-growing roses may be trained for or- 
nament. Common monthly or China roses may cover the cor- 
ners of the house, or may be trained under and along the sides 
of the windows, mixed with laurestinus, arbutus, morning 
'glory, and nasturtium ; nor let the honeysuckle or trumpet 
creeper be wanting in some corner, twisted around a pillar or 
tree, or hanging over a corner of the wall. Have plants of 
the hundred-leaved, moss, cabbage, variegated, and common 
blush roses, in the comers of the garden nearest the house.- 
If the flower borders be edged with the garden daisy, the 
pansy, or heart's-ease, verbenas, and the hardy sorts of auricu- 
las, there will be few days ih the season in which some pretty 
little flower will not peep forth, and afford pleasure in looking 
at it. A box, laurel, or rhododendron will do well under 
shade, and their perpetual green will refresh the eye when the 
leaves of other plants and trees are dead . 
Children should early imbibe a taste for flowers, for they 
do the heart good, and impart a kindly tone of feeling and re- 
finement, and serve to keep out evil thoughts. They should 
be taught to plant the seeds and roots, to weed and keep them 
clean, and to train and cultivate them ; and the taste will re- 
main with them when they grow old. It is on such objects as 
these, in the recollection of bygone days, that local attachment 
is founded, making us deligk. 4 . to visit the scenes of our child- 
