FLORAL DECORATLONS. 
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Thank heaven, instead, that freedom’s arm 
Can change a rocky soil to gold— 
That brave and generous lives can warm 
A clime with northern ices cold. 
And let these altars wreathed with flowers 
And piled with fruits, awake again 
Thanksgiving for the golden hours, 
The early and the latter rain ! 
Very pleasing wreaths may be made by intermingling 
grain and evergreens ; wheat, barley, oats and rye may be 
used, either one or all kinds in the same wreath—take 
about a dozen heads of one kind of grain and plait it into 
a little bunch, then do the same with each kind used : as 
the bits of evergreen are wound upon the ring, cord or 
flexible rod which forms the base of the wreath, the 
bunches of grain should be woven in, at regular intervals 
and in proper rotation of each kind, so that when the 
wreath is suspended the grain hangs out a fringe along the 
bottom to the widest part—the upper part of the wreath 
can be tastefully set off with everlasting flowers. 
A very handsome “ harvest sheaf” may be made by 
carefully arranging stalks of wheat into little bundles of a 
handful each, and the same way with oats and barley. 
