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ladies’ department. 
Indians had large fields of it and pumpkins, as early 
as the year 1627, when the Swedes first landed on 
this coast. 
Farmers’ boys need hardly he told that every part 
of this beautiful plant is valuable as food for man 
or animals. When the corn is “ in tassel,” the 
large pithy culms abound in a rich saccharine juice, 
from which a good syrop can he made; but in this 
highly favored land of plenty, where the sugar¬ 
cane is almost naturalized at the south, and the 
sugar maple yields a perennial supply at the North, 
we need not resort to so expensive a substitute for 
so cheap a luxury. The same sweet juice pervades 
the w T hole herbage, which is therefore a favorite 
and nutritious food for cattle. Everybody knows 
how highly the immature kernels on the ear are 
prized when served up as “ hot corn,” both as a 
delicacy and a staple dish for the table. And is not 
every farmer’s kitchen furnished with a “mush-pot,” 
for boiling mush, as we southrons call the “ hasty 
pudding ” of our “ down east ” brethren ? The 
methods for cooking corn meal are quite “ too nu¬ 
merous to mention,” and are of all grades of good¬ 
ness, from the “ hoe-cake,” made of meal and water 
only, and baked by the negro on his hoe, to the 
Indian pudding, that is rich enough to tickle the 
palate of an alderman. E. S. 
Eutawah. 
&aV\ts' SDqmrtmmt. 
CULTURE OF FLOWERS. 
Flowers should be cultivated in every garden, 
especially if near the house; in which case, if not 
in every other, the garden certainly ought not to be 
limited to the production of vegetables merely, but 
should contain the ornamental as well as the useful. 
Too much time and space must not, however, be 
devoted to flowers; and we will only mention a 
few of the more hardy sorts, which may be easily 
managed, and which will be pleasing at all seasons 
of the year. 
Climbing over the porch, or around the door, you 
may have a few of the hardy tall-growing roses, 
for ornament. Common monthly or China roses 
may cover the corners of your house, or be trained 
under and along the sides of the windows, mixed 
with laurestinus, arbutus, and pyracantha ; nor let 
the honeysuckle be wanting in some corner, twisted 
round a tree, or hanging over a corner of the wall. 
Have plants of the hundred-leaved, moss, cab¬ 
bage, variegated, and common blush roses, in the 
corners of your garden nearest your house ; and in 
the borders, plant snowdrops, crocuses, red and 
yellow tulips, white and yellow bachelors’ buttons, 
primroses, anemones, narcissus, cowslips, poly¬ 
anthus, white and yellow lilies, wallflowers of 
different colors, dahlias, hollyhocks, jonquils, vio¬ 
lets, the sweet-scented clover, mignionette, and any 
other annuals you like or can procure. 
If you edge your flower-borders with the garden 
daisy, and the hardy sorts of auriculas, there will 
be few days in summer or autumn in which some 
pretty little flower will not peep forth, and afford 
you pleasure in looking at it. A holly (an Ame¬ 
rican one North, or a European South), box, laurel, 
or rhododendron, will do well under shade, and 
their perpetual green will refresh your eyes in win¬ 
ter ; and be assured that such objects as a garden 
presents, if it be neatly kept, are always valuable ; 
for they do the heart good, and impart a kindly 
tone of feeling and refinement, and serve to keep 
out evil thoughts. 
Encourage your children in a taste for flow r ers. 
Teach them to plant the seeds and roots, and to 
weed and keep them clean, and train and cultivate 
them ; and the taste will remain with them w T hen 
they grow old. It is on such things as these, in 
the recollection of bygone days, that local attach¬ 
ment is founded, making us delight to revisit the 
scenes of our childhood, and bringing back the 
wanderer from distant climes, to seek a last resting- 
place in the home of his fathers. 
FEMALE CLOTHING. 
There is such a variety of articles for female 
dress, that it may often be doubtful w r hich is best 
adapted for any particular situation; but for outer 
garments, woollen is in general to be preferred to 
cotton, which, although gay looking and cheaper at 
first, sooner loses its color, and does not wear so 
long. Red and blue cloaks, and dark checkered 
woollen shawls, are comfortable and well looking; 
and a bonnet is indispensable for every woman who 
wishes to preserve her good looks, and avoid pre¬ 
mature wrinkles. Everything beyond what is ne¬ 
cessary for cleanliness and comfort, and for neatness 
and decency of appearance, should be avoided in 
dress, whether it be of male or female. 
For the dress of children, warmth should chiefly 
be studied. An economical wife, who is a good 
needle-woman, will often manage to clothe her 
children neatly, from parts of her own and her 
husband’s old garments; and her little ones may 
thus be decently clothed at a trifling expense. This, 
however, will much depend upon her skill and in¬ 
genuity, and it cannot be too strongly recommended 
to every female, whether wife or daughter, to pay 
attention to neatness and cleanliness in ttie chil¬ 
dren’s persons and clothing, as well as in her own. 
The old proverb says, that “ a stitch in time saves 
nine and wherever attention is manifested in the 
careful repairs of the family clothing, we may be 
assured that comforts of other kinds will not be 
wanting within doors. An old, but clean and neatly 
mended child’s dress, or husband’s working gar¬ 
ment, bespeaks the thrifty housewife, and implies 
habits the very opposite of those indicated by dirty 
or ragged clothes, which are a sure mark of the 
wife’s indolence and neglect. Z. 
Training of Children. —The instruction of 
your children cannot commence too early. Every 
mother is capable of teaching her children obedience, 
humility, cleanliness, and propriety of behavior; 
and it is a delightful circumstance that the first in¬ 
struction should thus be communicated by so tender 
a teacher. It is by combining affectionate gentle¬ 
ness in granting what is right, with judicious firm¬ 
ness in refusing what is improper, that the happi¬ 
ness of children is promoted, and that good aqd 
orderly habits are established. If children are 
early trained to be docile and obedient, the future 
task of guiding them aright will be comparatively 
ea.sy.*—Nicholls. 
