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ladies’ flower gardener. 
heart and affections as a nursery acts upon the matronly feelings. 
It attaches them to their home; it throws a powerful charm over 
the spot dedicated to such deeply-interesting employment; and 
it lures them from dwelling too deeply upon the unavoidable dis¬ 
appointments and trials of life, which sooner or later disturb and 
disquiet the heart. 
An amusement which kings and princes have stamped with 
dignity, and which has afforded them recreation under the toils 
of government, must become for ever venerated, and will be 
sought for by every elegant as well as by every scientific mind. 
Floriculture ranges itself under the head of female accomplish¬ 
ments in these our days; and we turn with pity from the spirit 
which will not find in her “ garden of roses” the simplest and 
purest of pleasures. 
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