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Crested Moss Roses-Half Size

small the village or city lot, flowers may smile up from it to the sun, and call down blessings from the admiring passer-by upon the fair and skillful hands that have tended them. In no place do they more improve and refine the surroundings, and show the beauty of feminine taste and culture than upon the farm. An ample lawn [447] studded with ornamental shrubs and trees, a bed cut out here and there, or a smiling parterre where these lovely gifts of nature have been taught by care and skill to bloom, fill the soul with an harmonious joy. All long for the beautiful. All love flowers. But many, ignorantly, suppose that flowers cost so much in time and money that only the wealthy may enjoy them. They are within the easy reach of all. The common flowers are, as a rule, as beautiful as the rarer ones. Perennial flowering plants, or their seeds, once planted, remain year after year, increasing in beauty with each successive season until they arrive at their full perfection. II. How to Cultivate Flowers.

THE principal mistake made in the cultivation of flowers, is permitting them to be smothered while young, by weeds. Many of the common varieties, which sow themselves by their seeds, remaining in the ground during the winter, manage to make a pretty successful struggle with their enemies, the weeds, but the plants are