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IjfDIAN SUMMER. 
The roadslflo bright with wealth 
The soft air sweet with faint peifnme, 
The birds in ecstasy of tune; 
“Ah! this is Juno, most perfect June, 
We cried, and pluched the flowers gay. 
“ 0 perfect Juno! 0 iierfect day • 
The pathway led thro’ forests deep 
Where winds unceasing dirges swoop; 
The Maples fired the gloom with blaze 
And led us into untracked w.ays; 
“ Ah, this October is,” we cried, 
“October in full pomp and pride!” 
The pathway woimd a mountain steep 
Where Gorse and Heather gi'ew kueo-deep; 
The smumit reached, a chill wind blow. 
Cold seemed the overarching blue: 
"November ’tis again, we cried; 
“Farewell to thee, sweet summer-tide!” 
Descending into valleys green 
Where eattle browsed, meek-eyed, serene, 
ttniere b.abbling sped the noisy brook. 
And eager fishers baited hook: 
“ ’Tis Summer still! ” once more cried we, 
“ O Indian siumner, hail to thee! ” 
ir. A. S.. hi Boston Journal. 
PLORAL DECORA'nOirS AT HOME. 
THE HALL. 
It is never good taste to place in the cor¬ 
ridor any hut foliage plants, or cut Perns, 
vines, evergreens, and the like. Flowers, 
whether on or off the bush, are more or less 
susceptible to draughts, which blight their 
petals and mar their perfection. It is incon¬ 
siderate and inharmonious to garland banis¬ 
ters with Eoses, or place bouquets of rich 
blossoms on newel posts. 
Let the former be bound with chains of 
shaded Ferns, and a specimen Croton ele- 
gahtissimus surmount the latter. A corridor 
can be made fantastically bewitching with 
lacy Ferns and brilliant foliage. It may be 
dressed to represent a Fern lane for festival 
occasions, or rendered quietly beautiful with 
a few plants, or bunches of cut vines and 
foliage. A peaceful a.spect is bestowed by 
verdant foliage, which is most refreshing, 
delightful, and suitable for the entrance to a 
house. 
A charming bouquet for the hat-stand is 
one of Dogwood Fenis, Aclianlum UArapInjl- 
lum graeiie, which has a reddish cast to its 
young fronds, Elkhom Perns, and .Selaginel- 
las. If these are laid in a flat dish- of water 
they will remain fresh many d,ays. The dish 
will look more artistic if fringed with trail¬ 
ers. .Smilax and Lggodium scanclens will last 
sonae time, but Trade.scantia will grow 
thriftily in water. A simple flat basket 
planted with Lycopodium is very attractive 
in this position. All kinds of mosses ami 
wood growth will ornament hall-stands ■ a 
bunch of autumn leaves is also very suitable 
and handsome. 
THE DRAWINa-ROOXI. 
All flowers become the drawing-room ; the 
liner and the more choicely selected the 
varieties, the more elegant tho decoration 
Eoses are the richest and dressiest of all 
blossoms; Orchids are exceptionally clioicn 
and Lilies are tho most effective. The tei 
dency in parlor decorations is to overdo, and 
ferior bloom. nondescript de- 
The fashion of J is 
signs between doois and 
born of poor taste. jjjto 
effect when tied on s i Small 
silly mottoed balls, kno s, 
flower glasses or a few 
stemmed Eose, a spike of Oicuio, 
Vases demand careful \n 
and Euphorm Japomca 
these, but Callas are moie effecU 
their own foliage simply, and 
in our opinion, be in company wi Wos om j 
unless related to their family. The same i 
applicable to Lilium ^ . 
(Urn, or the gorgeous throated Ama y , 
which are maltreated when placed among a 
conglomeration of flowers. To see any 
flower in its entire beauty, its foliage mus 
remain undistiu’bed. 
The habit of snipping the leaves from 
stems and binding them close aboiit the 
blossom is ridiculous, as tho stem with its 
growth shares the glory udth the flower. Foi 
this reason “ cluster baskets,” the thickly 
massed bouquet, any arrangement, in fact, 
of flowers where their foliage is stripped 
and they are tied to a stick is inartistic, and 
is usually a m.ake-shift to utilize inferior 
blossoms. Limoges vases, decorated with 
floral devices, are handsome holders for 
Eoses. 
THE FIRE-PLACE. 
As the fire-place is the center of attraction 
in any room, so the mantel above it is the 
place where the most artistic effects in floral 
decoration can be produced. When there is 
no fire fill the fire-place nith pots of bloom¬ 
ing plants. These may be sunk in baskets 
of moss with excellent appearance. Double 
Geraniums are beautiful for this purpose, 
especially when the trusses of bloom are at 
their maximum. A few Perns should be 
intermixed. 
To bank mantel-pieces seems an intricate 
piece of work, but it is not. The prettiest 
plan is to bed the mantel-piece with Lyco¬ 
podium I it makes a cheaper and more effect¬ 
ive foundation than massed blossoms. Lay 
first over the mantel-piece a coat of tin-foil. 
Cut strings of Smilax into a fringing to fall 
over the edge, and trim it evenly. Place this 
on the tin-foil; turn out tlio Lycopodium and 
put the contents of each pot firmly together 
until there is an oven bed of it. Bond it 
down to fit tho edge from which tho Smilax 
fringing hangs. Vases of flowers may bo 
set on this, or flat ba.skots filled loosely with 
Eoses and spring flowers. Upon such a 
foundation most any effect maybe brongl.t 
_ Flora. 
flower ODLTURE IN BOSTON, 
Btrangers in Boston during tin, summer 
season over remark the loveliness of tlm 
from tJio Common. It is a hn.r,. i ^ 
twenty acres in extent I t f T’ 
bed of oblong, round sum rn 
trie shape. Tlio effec’tof such coin'"'’ 
mklst of a smooth, velvety ;aw '"£ 
charming, from the contrast as wel , 
beauty of tho blossoms. The wholn T 
Phoreispervadodwith these 
plants 
shade trees at intervals along th 
pathways, make this spot an eW^'^S 
As tho season advances the fl 
changed, and so the place is everha^®'^ 
initsbeautyandpurpose. AllthroueJ?.®''''"is 
flowers are hawked in the busb^ 
of Boston at every hour of the day ^ i^**®'** 
ing. Groat Eoses, and Pansies, and T'*"' 
l^inks seem to take the load b’ th' 
trade; while tho florists’ windows h 
embarrassment of riches in the rar 
most costly flowers from their great -***' 
atories. 
In no city are flowers and foliage 
more extensively used for decorative 
poses. The bordering of a table-cloth a T 
of Eoses for a dinner-party is not an *** 
men, or tho ornamentation o,f the wall of*” 
dining-room or a parlor with the choice t 
enttings from a greenhouse. A pretty fagkj 
in calling is the leaving of a bouquet with 
visiting-card. 
The Eoses cultivated near Boston have 
long been accepted as the finest grown in 
this country. About five hundred are sent 
to New-York daily, and as many more in 
other directions. One florist grows nothing 
but Clove Pinks in his largest conservatories. 
Another cut ten thousand Violets in one 
day in a single greenhouse. The mostfamons 
Eose houses in the vicinity are those of 
Natick, belonging to Mr. Wood, some twenty- 
two in number, each over one hundred feet in 
length by thirty-two in width, and all so 
connected with underground passages that 
the workmen can pass from one to another 
without going outdoors. The Eoses are 
trained on wires and are exceedingly vigor¬ 
ous. The buds are cut every hour and car¬ 
ried to an iee-bouse lined with zbc, and 
having three air-chambers, until packed in 
air-tight boxes for the home market, or to he 
sent to New-York, Philadelphia, St. Loris, 
Chicago, Canada, and as far as Kansas Citv. 
In Febru.ary there were seven thousand 
Mareclial Neil Eoses cut in one of these 
houses, and twenty thousand Jacqueminots 
in another, to say nothing of the thousands 
of Cornelia Cooks, Baroness Eothscliilds, 
Catherine Mermets, and all the v.arieties of 
Roses that are so eagerly sought for at the 
present time. One house has Tea Roses 
alone. These Rose houses cover four acres, 
and require an army of workmen to take 
caro of them. .. 
Tho very height of floral cultiu'e of 
varieties in tho neighborhood of Boston Wj 
howovor, reached in tho famous “ Hnnueiu^ 
Gardens,” or tlio “Italian Gardens,” 
a rc popularly called. They lU’O open to al ^ 
cave to visit thoni. Thoro aro fifl> 
niulor cnltis'ation. One portion o 
grounds rniis down to a pvotty lake vn i ^ 
“ Wahan More,” which is tho t’ountah'' "^'^^^ 
of the Charles Rivor. Tho torracos are 
onmmontod with ovorgroons cut hd'’ 
tic sliapos, that givo an almost woii'd apP*- 
aiico to tho place. Farthor up tlio ban 
tlio lawn, aro wallod inolosuros 
gnoons, with winding paths in tho shoi. 
or bods of llowors. Archod openings 
ogroKM from thoso ronmntio and 
Clio of thorn is so arrangod that an a' 
oan bo drawn ovor it for sooial puvpns® > 
tho diaplay of some rare show of 
Tho oonsorvatorios, fruit and Grape 
avo inurvols of tlioir kind. In ono ben 
ono tlionsand riu’o Orchids, from - ja 
iny whoro Orchids grow, and they b 
