300 WINDOW GAEDENINO. 
CONCLUSION. 
And now, regretfully taking leave of the interested readers who have fullovred 
us to the Gnd, we cannot close without some slight but liearty expression of the 
genuine love and pure ennobling influence which comes from constant associa- 
tions with flowers. Though Window Gardening has its difficulties, still its 
pleasures are as yet but partially told, and its capabilities only half revealed. 
IIow dreary our homes would be without some sweet presence of floral blos- 
soms .? Where they are, they seem to give a "benediction of x>eace," {or they 
beguile many a weary hour, and soothe many a feverish or anxious life. Would 
that all might be led ere long to study the beauties and acknowledge the sweet 
influence of the flowers, " Nature's Jewels" vhose life seems to be examples of 
humility, purity, and patience. 
Ruskm says : " Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordmary humanity 
Children love them ; quiet, tender, contented, ordinary people love them as they 
grow ; luxurious and disorderly people rejoice in them gathered. They are the 
cottagers' treasure, and in the crowded town, mark, as with a little broken frag- 
■•nent of rainbow, the windows of the worker, in w'hose hearts rests the " cove- 
nant of peace." To the child and the girl, to the peasant and manufacturing 
operative, to the grisette and the nun, the lover and the monk, they are precious 
always — 
" Bright RPina of Eartli in which, perchance we Mm 
What Kden was — what Paradise may be. 
