quet making, and is called Bouquet Green. They are both kept by florists, and sold at about 
5.00 a barrel. In smaller quantities the Ground Pine is sold at 25 cents a pound, and the 
Running Pine in packages of ten yards for 50 cents. We give engravings 
showing the appearance of each kind, the first one being the Running Pine, 
and its adaptation to light festoon 
work will be readily understood. 
The Lycopodiums seem to delight 
in high hills and cold situations. 
We have advised the use of a 
few bright berries wherever they 
can be obtained, for lighting up 
the sombre evergreens used for winter decoration. In 
England the Holly furnishes the most brilliant scarlet, 
and the Mistletoe the purest white. In many sections 
of America the American Holly, Ilex opaca, leaves 
nothing to be desired in the way of a scarlet berry, 
while in others the Winter Berry, Ilex verticillata, English holly. 
illuminates moist places until late in the winter. 
Another Holly, Ilex Icevigata, known as the 
Smooth Winter Berry, abounds in the West, 
we believe. We have a good many other berry- 
bearing plants that furnish the most elegant 
berries in the world, but unfortunately they are 
usually destroyed by frosts and storms before 
Holiday time; but some of them may be pre- 
served in a cool, damp cellar, the stems being^ 
^ placed in water. Among them we would name 
the Strawberry Shrub, Mountain Ash, Snow 
Berry and Bitter Sweet, all of which are elegant, 
WINTER BERRY, (iLEx VERTICILLATA.) but the Strawbei'Ty Shvub ^xo^uc^^, we sometimes 
think, the most beautiful berry in the world. At the time we write this, November 22d, the 
Euonymus Shrubs are ablaze with beauty. 
BUTTON-HOLE FLOWERS. 
It is not loug ago, at least it does not seem long to us, when any gentleman who wore a 
flower in the button-hole of his coat, or any lady who adorned hair or dress with a few flowers, 
would be thought vain, 
silly, foppish, etc. We 
well remember, some 
years since, when spend- 
ing a day or two with 
some English friends 
^^^^^^ h 1^<"^ between Port Hope and 
M:^J^^^0<^ Rice Lake, once when 
we were in the carriage, 
just ready to start on an 
excursion, the gentle- 
man hastily jumped from 
the carriage, requesting 
the driver to wait a min- 
ute, as he had forgotten 
the button-hole flowers. 
He soon returned from 
BUTTON-HOLE BOUQUET. the garden with flowers 
for all, which soon adorned coats and dresses. It seemed very strange for an old gentleman 
to act so, and yet it was very thoughtful and pretty. Flowers are now worn on all festive 
occasions, even in this country, and nowhere are they more prized. 
BUTTON-HOLE FLOWER. 
