THE LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET. 
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Yellow Japan Jasmine (Jasminum tioridum). 
(See page 250 Notes and Comments.) 
diums for business. The business has become a neces¬ 
sity in every town of only six or seven hundred inhabit¬ 
ants. Flowers and plants are used now at all social and 
public meetings, even in the smallest villages. In passing 
through the country, remote from centres of population, 
the florist’s hand is seen everywhere. Beds of annuals, 
beds of coleus, clusters of roses and borders of other 
flowers are found around and near every door-yard.' The 
most encouraging signs are abroad in the land. Let us 
take advantage and do all we can to make all homes 
cheerful and our business a success. When a few years 
since the only flower seeds sown were those saved from 
year to year, or those only bought for a few cents at the 
groceries, there are now tons of seed sold, such as mign¬ 
onette, sweet-peas, asters, phloxes and pansies. The 
spring flowering bulbs were rarely ever seen, excepting, 
perhaps, a very few crocuses, tulips and snowdrops, which 
struggled along from year to year almost unobserved. 
How is it now, beds of spring flowering bulbs are as 
plenty as geraniums were ten years ago. I can remem¬ 
ber eleven years ago in Cleveland seeing a bed of tulips 
on Pearl street—only one. The next year on Franklin 
street there was one. The next year there were a dozen, 
and a year or two after nearly every garden had one. 
Our friend of Pearl street—I say our friend because he 
was a friend to us all, moreover, he was a dear lover of 
all flowers—set the fashion of having beds of tulips in 
Cleveland : he advertised bulbs for us all. It would pay 
