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woman. Indeed its extension in our New States cannot be 
•done without the encouragement, nay, the assistance of wo¬ 
man’s head and hands. As Dr. Darlington says of Botany, 
(which is one of Floriculture’s handmaids,) “to wives and 
daughters we must look for salutary reformation in these pur¬ 
suits;'’ “properly educate and invoke the co-operation of the 
ladies.” Mainly through them may we hope to see the sur¬ 
roundings of our Western cottages made beautiful and inviting. 
Husbands and fathers have so much of the sternly necessary 
ever before them, that beautifying and adorning may be for¬ 
gotten unless duly prompted. 
Blessings on our Western women! In many a “settler’s 
cottage,"—“far from all people’s praise,” save her own home 
circle— is the “Una” who in more ways than one has 
“Made a sunshine in a shady place.” 
ITS ASSOCIATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS. 
We have looked at ilower culture in its useful points of view. 
To souls with a throb of romance, a touch of poetry, there are 
other sweet inducements. Though needing not perhaps such 
occupation, either as Physician or Educator, they will have 
flowers about them for the love of them. The heart will go 
out toward them as naturally as the tender, leaf-hidden blossom 
creeps towards the sun's ray, and which it will as assuredly 
appropriate to itself for its own warm expanding and the rich 
coloring needed for its own life. 
“Fairies use flowers for their charactery,” 
and we mortals cannot do without them. The child untaught 
loves them—will fasten them in its breeze-tangled tresses and, 
about its dress. Children of a larger growth, when they can¬ 
not get the real 
“Summer’s velvet buds,” 
and the sun-painted flowers, must have their counterfeit. An 
old poet declared, 
“All that’s good is beautiful and fair.” 
However this may be, there is nothing useful in this world of 
