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claim the florist’s attention. Does it, at first glance, seem that 
Flora’s various changes will bewilder the investigator? The 
perfect order and harmony of all her arrangements, and the 
unalterable adaptation of the links that graduate her proceed¬ 
ings, are readily discovered. Her laws are unerring, and her 
seeming vagaries fixed regularities. 
“In Nature there’s no blemish.” 
A merely mechanical flower fancier and cultivator seems an 
enigma, a misnomer, where new uses and beauties charm, and 
new emotions of pleasure start up at every step. What mys¬ 
teries in the peculiar culture by which hue, and form, and 
fragrance, are in many sorts inimitably varied; modes of 
propagation, training and nourishing changing as varieties 
and the nature and adaptation of soils, with their chemical 
proportions and affinities. 
Invention and originality will be roused. The flower student 
will scarcely rest content with another’s assertion. Other 
reasons must commend themselves, and experiment prove the 
trustworthiness of their conclusions. This spirit of investiga¬ 
tion evoked will, like hearts in love, 
“Negotiate for itself, 
• And trust no agent.” 
LTseful and important truths yet await the discovery of the 
Florist, while many remain to be more satisfactorily proven. 
A taste for reading will assuredly grow. The one subject 
is so linked in and in with a large range of other themes, that 
a general intelligence and culture must ensue. The more 
enlightened and cultivated the mind and heart, the keener the 
sensibilities and appreciation of these good gifts, the higher 
and purer the enjoyment from this close communion with 
nature. 
To the garden how many of the Arts and their specialties 
are indebted for models in the way of ornamentation. All 
textile fabrics—everything which is moulded, or wrought, or 
carved, or brazed, or cast, or painted; scarce anything adorned 
with design, but borrows an idea from leaf, or stem, or fruit; 
