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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
early enough to bloom in the present autumn. The possession of 
such a flower cannot fail in being a great treat to every lover of 
that loveliest of all flowers—the Rose. 
OR WINDOW FLORICULTURE. 
We have received several communications, requesting infor¬ 
mation as to the best methods of cultivating flowers inside 
windows, or otherwise for the ornamenting of rooms ; and also 
to give a list of the flowers best adapted for this purpose. We 
admit that these are very interesting questions to a large propor¬ 
tion of the population, especially of towns, w T here the parties have 
no other means of cultivating a plant, and watching its progress 
from the bud to the bloom, which is the most pleasant part of 
floriculture. In the narrowest and darkest lane, where the rays 
of the sun can penetrate even by reflection, there is some flower 
that will afford a little greenness and growth, though it will not 
bloom well; and we have no doubt that there are, in the courts 
and lanes of the metropolis, thousands of persons who cherish a 
little sprig of plant, set in a broken jug, with as much zest as the 
wealthiest and most extensive grower regards his splendid collec¬ 
tion. This has its use too, and its moral effect; for it has been 
observed that, among the very humblest classes, the female who 
has a few flowers in her window is never dissipated, while the 
dissipated one never shows a single flower, or if she gets one one 
day, it is gone the next. This shows the great moral effect of flori¬ 
culture, even in the humblest style at which it can be made to 
appear. When we ascend a little higher in society, we still find 
the window flowers an unerring index to the character. If they 
are healthy and trim, and coming kindly into bloom in theii; 
proper seasons, it is a favourable omen ; but if the pots are 
chipped and broken, the plants languishing, many dead leaves 
about them, and the coming bloom small and feeble, it is quite 
the reverse. 
So important is this department of floriculture, so general is it, 
and so beneficial are its moral effects, that it is desirable to encou¬ 
rage it, and diffuse the knowledge of its principles by every 
