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CHAPTER VIII. 
THE FLOWER-GARDEN, AND THE CULTURE 
OF FLOWERS. 
Whatever doubts may be entertained as to 
the practicability of a lady attending to the 
culture of culinary vegetables and fruit-trees, 
none can exist respecting her management 
of the flower-garden, as that is pre-eminently 
a woman’s department. The culture of 
flowers implies the lightest possible kind 
of garden labour; only, indeed, enough to 
give an interest in its effects. This light 
labour is, in fact, one of the reasons that the 
culture of flowers is so generally a favourite 
occupation; as, though it is one of the 
conditions of our nature that we shall never 
enjoy what is too easily obtained, it is equally 
