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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
Income—.£ 100 per annum.—Family of five persons. 
£ s. d. 
Charity . 5 0 0 
House rent. 15 0 0 
Clothes—gentleman, £10; lady and children, 
£10 ... 20 0 0 
Butcher . 13 0 0 
Bread and flour. 8 0 0 
Butter and milk. G 0 0 
Cheese. 1 0 0 
Vegetables . 2 0 0 
Beer. 0 10 0 
Servant and char-woman . 5 0 0 
Coals and wood . 8 0 0 
Salt, spice, vinegar, <fcc. 0 10 0 
Soap, &c. 2 0 0 
Candles . 2 0 0 
Tea . 2 4 0 
Sugar . 1 0 0 
Bice. 1 0 0 * 
Education . 3 10 0 
Medicine. 3 0 0 
Extras. 1 G 0 
Total.£100 0 0 
My friend adds, “ This is a scale that suits this neighbour¬ 
hood. At this time it is very liberal, and would render the 
family really comfortable. For the rent, a neat little box 
could be had, with a morsel of garden. The supply of coal 
would wash all the clothes at home; and the soap, char¬ 
woman and all, be well paid. The struggle to make a decent 
appearance is very trying for those who have been well and 
carefully reared, but an honest heart overcomes all, and a 
right feeling carries the day. The lady will be, to a certain 
extent, her own servant. She will rise very early and admit 
the char-woman, who, for a breakfast, comes in and does the 
morning work. 
“ The mother dresses her children, if they are young, and 
nfakes them dress themselves and each other, if older. 
The father then reads a portion of Scripture, and offers up 
the morning family prayer, and then reverently asking a 
blessing on their meat, they sit down to breakfast. 
“ The sleeping rooms are then arranged for the day; if the 
children are old enough, they remove, and wash up the 
breakfast things; and while the mother attends to her 
menage, they return to the parlour, and occupy themselves in 
reading and needlework, until their mother comes to them. 
They then prepare their lessons for a master or governess, 
who attends them for two hours every day. The children 
also lay the cloth, and prepare the room for dinner. Exer¬ 
cise must be taken at suitable hours; if there is a garden, 
they may be out at every spare moment of the day. Their 
lessons should be learned in the evening for the next day. 
Early hours for the children, and for the parents if possible. 
The parents do not use candles during the long summer 
days, that is from May to July. The char-woman must be 
engaged all Saturday, to clean every thing, and cook the 
dinner for Sunday, cleaning shoes and knives, and putting 
all things in readiness, that nothing extra need be done on 
the Sabbath day. This is a rough draft to be improved; 
but without which all rules would be useless.” 
I have given my friend’s “rough draft” because it may be 
a valuable help to some inexperienced mistress of a family, 
who will be able, by its light, to arrange her daily routine, so 
as to make the most of a small and inconvenient domestic 
establishment. By early rising, method, and activity, sur¬ 
prising things may be done in a household; and it is a 
special beneiit, and indeed a blessing, to young women of the 
higher ranks, to be so accustomed to assist in these duties 
from their earliest childhood, as to feel them no burden or 
difficulty in their married life. Many a young woman of 
birth marries a man ofrvery small means, and is for years, 
perhaps, learning and struggling to do that which was un¬ 
known and inconceivable, until she found herself plunged 
into comparative poverty, wishing and longing to make her 
husband comfortable, yet not knowing how to do it, or to 
direct its being done. How many troubled moments,—how 
many contentions arise, where all should he peace, from 
the young, ignorant, but well meaning wife, labouring to 
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effect order, and comfort, and economy in hev little domicile, 
yet labouring and worrying herself in vain ! With zeal and 
knowledge, one family of narrow means will be clean, and 
cheerful, and regular, while without it, another of even , 
better circumstances will be dirty, disorderly, and poor. 
Let me impress my friend’s “rough draft” upon the 1 
attention of all who desire to organize their domestic affairs 
in the best way, when the income is small, and where the 
family are required to assist much in the home department— 
when every member is willing to act with cheerfulness and 
good temper, in the different branches of home sendee, a 
striking benefit will arise from it and there will be nothing 
in these labours of love to endanger the good breeding of 
the lady, or to disqualify her for a larger and higher sphere, 
should she, in the providence of God, be removed to it; and 
above and before all, there will be nothing to deaden the 
taste for spiritual things, or to deprive her of peace at the 
last. 
A SELECT LIST OF CHINESE AZALEAS. 
Aurantia superba —orange-brown colour. 
Apollo —crimson ; bold stout flower. 
Arhorea purpurea —large purple, with a reddish ceutre. 
Ardent —splendid scarlet; first-rate form. New. 
Aurora —scarlet; neat habit; free bloomer. New. 
Jlroughtonii —light purple, finely spotted. 
Due de Brabant —crimson; good shape. 
Dulse of Devonshire —scarlet; good free bloomer. New. 
Danielsiana superba —deep crimson ; neat foliage. 
Eximia —light salmon colour, finely spotted. 
Exquisite —violet pink, white edged, spotted with red. 
Extranii —dark scarlet; good shape, very fine. New. 
Fulgens —deep red. 
Fielders —white, like old alba in colour, but a finer shaped 
flower. 
Gledslancsii —white streaked with red; exquisite shape. 
G. excclsa —violet rose ; good shape. 
G. candidissima —fine snow-white ; fine shape. New. 
Hebe- —scarlet. 
Ilendersonii —rosy purple. 
Holdenii —distinct colour. 
Incomparable —large clear rose colour. 
Ivoryana —white and red striped ; fine form. New. 
Knight'd —white ; evergreen foliage. 
Lateritia —salmon colour ; extra fine form. 
L. alba —the best white out. New. 
L. grandiflora —same as Lateritia, but larger flower. 
Leucomegista —clear white ; free bloomer. 
May niflora —fine large scarlet. 
Mrs. Fry —bright red ; very large flower. 
Murray ana —violet rose ; large, fine shape. 
Modesta —peach colour; splendid; double. New. 
Optima —crimson ; fine shape. 
Pallida —pale pink; fine. 
Prestantissima —orange scarlet; fine shape; splendid. 
Purpurea plena —double purple. 
Rosea punctata —crimson, spotted ; fine. 
Refulgens —scarlet; free bloomer ; very useful. 
Rubra plena —double scarlet; distinct and good. 
Reddingii —large scarlet. 
Rawsonii —plum colour ; free bloomer. 
Speciosissima —good large scarlet: only fit for exliibition. 
Splendens —light scarlet; very good. 
Sinensis —orange yellow. 
Triumphans —rosy pink spotted ; free bloomer; fine shaped. 
Variegnla —rosy red, striped, edged with white. New. 
Violacea superba —damson purple colour ; first-rate. New. 
Vivicans —white and red, lively distinct colour. 
Flowering plants of those marked “ new," average 5s. 
each ; the others from 2s. Gd. to 3s. Gd. each. 
GATHER UP THE FRAGMENTS. 
An article which appeared in your last number, entitled I 
“ Soup for the Poor,” and which will, I hope, prove useful j 
to many wives and mothers of families of the poorer classes, ; 
leads me to trouble you with a few remarks intended for 
those whom God has blessed with the good things of this 
life. Though much might be done by a poor woman in 
cooking the food for her family in the best way, and in 
