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has her box of mignonette and ornamental pots of balsams, fuchsias and 
musk, and her jug filled with wallflowers, and the smoked mantel in her 
little kitchen is smothered with dry grasses, with a sprig of asparagus 
berries in the midst, while the window of her parlour is artlessly draped 
with the bright green foliage and 
the yellow blossoms of the canary 
creeper. 
You who have gardens may 
multiply your enjoyments of them 
a hundred-fold by keeping in mind 
the genial suggestion of Leigh 
Hunt. Make the most of every 
ray of light that falls out of 
heaven to bless you at the win¬ 
dow ; there you may woo beauty, 
and have it nod to you in a 
hundred forms: with a pair of 
scissors you may, every morning, 
cull a posy for the breakfast- 
table ; you may make the tables, 
and the mantel-pieces, and the 
quiet recesses of your rooms gay 
at all times, and the whole at¬ 
mosphere of the house as odorous 
of flowers, as we will hope it is 
already morally sweet with the 
interchange of love’s language and 
the expressions of high emotions 
of the heart. 
There are many ways in which 
cut flowers may be preserved, both 
with and without suitable appliances. In spring time you may delight yourself 
by culling a few violets, and place them in a glass dish, in which there is a little 
wet silver-sand. The short stems stuck into the sand obtain sufficient 
moisture, and a glass over the whole confines the fragrance, so that whenever 
you are inclined to inhale a full breath of unadulterated violet perfume, you 
have but to lift off the glass, and enjoy it to your heart's content. In the 
SABOT OF GRASSES AND BULRUSHES. 
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