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STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
The simple care of a little flower garden will be for them at 
first both books and teacher—till presently they crave the 
books and teachers that open to them a deeper insight of 
nature. The out door work in fresh air and earth will give 
them not only 
“Cheeks like apples which the sun hath rudded,” 
but more strength and more sense to meet the duties of after 
life than if double the time were spent in those tender years 
in the school room. Memory, reflection, calculation and log¬ 
ical analysis will be strengthened ; taste will be developed, and 
a love of harmony, as color, form and size are studied in the 
massing and grouping of sorts and varieties— 
“ In emerald tufts, flowers, purple, blue and white, 
Like sapphire, pearl and rich embroidery.” 
Beneficially will such a pursuit act upon their aftectional na¬ 
tures, encouraging social and kindly feelings. The feet and 
hands that must step so carefully and handle so gently the 
floral pets, will be more tender and less boisterous within doors, 
the spirit, as a consequence, more amiable, drawing brothers 
and sisters more lovingly together and remaining in after life 
a sympathetic bond of union. 
The holy spell of a loveable childhood’s home and teachings, 
treasured in memory, is an active conducer to virtue and a 
preserver from temptations amid the excitements of after life. 
Back to the flower-surrounded childhood, oh what recollections 
turn and thrill! The genial influences of that home are in- 
effacibly impressed. 
Was it your happy lot to pass your early life in a rural 
home? How many, many things were fastened upon your 
childish memory by the aid of flowers ! How indissolubly in¬ 
structions, as well as times and events, are connected with 
these sweet reminders! 
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ITS ADAPTEDNESS TO CIRCUMSTANCES. 
This health'giving recreation, this mind and heart educator, 
is within the reach of all who have a strip of earth out under 
