Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-12-01
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Flowers.

We confess to homely enthusiasm for Glove I
mot the white clover, beloved Of honey-bees
but the red clover. 1t holds up its round, hon
est head, with such rustic innocence Do you
ever see it without thinking of sound, sensi-
bic country lass, sun-browned and fearless as
innocence always should be! We 60 past a
field of red clover, like Solomon in garden of
spices. There is the burdock, too, which its
prickly rosettes that has little beauty or value,
except Qike some kind, brown, good-natured
nurses) as an amusement to children, who man
ufacture baskets and what-not of its burs. But
the thistle is prince. Let any man that has
an eye for beauty take view of the whole
plant, and see where is more expressive grace
and symmetry and where is there more
kingly flower! To be sure there are sharp OBJ
jections to it in bouquet yet most gardeners
feel toward thistle as boys toward snake
and farmers, with more reason, dread it like
il was universal fsvorite. What shall we
say of May-weed, irreverently called dog fen
mel by some Its acrid Juice, its heavy, pun
gent odor make it disagreeable-and being dis
agreeable, its enormous Mahhusian increase
renders it hateful 10 damsels Of white stockings
compelled TO walk through it on dewy morn
ings. Arise, Scythe, and devour it!
The first thing that deies the frost is the
chck-weed. II will open its floral eye, and
look the thermometer in the face at 80 de-
grees il leads out the snow-drop and crocus.
AS harbinger and herald let il not be forgot
ten.
You cannot forget, if you would, those
golden kisses all over the cheeks of the mead
ow, queerly called dandelions There are
many greenhouse blossoms less pleasing to US
than these. Moreover, their passing away is
more spiritual than their bloom. Nothing can
bemore airy and beautiful than the transparent
seed-globe-a fairy dome Of splendid archiiec-
ture. tt
As for marygolds, peoples, hollyhocks, we
shall never have garden without them, both
for their own sake, and for the sake of old
fashioned folks who used TO love them morn
ing glories need no praisiDg. The vine; the
leaf, the exquisite vase-formed flower, the del
icate and various colors, will secure it from
neglect while taste remains. Grape blossoms
and mignonette do not appeal TO the eye, and
ifthey were selfish, no man would care for
them. Yet, because they pour out their life in
fragrance, they are always loved, and like
homely people with noble hearts, they come to
look beautiful by association Nothing that
produces constant pleasure in US can fail to
seem beautiful We do not need TO speak for
mat universal favorite-the rose As flower
Is The finest stroke Of creation, so The rose is the
haPpiest hit among flowers!
But we must not neglect the blossoms Of fruit
treesl What a great heart an apple tree must
have What generous work il makes Of
blossoming Not single blossom for each
apple that is TO be but profusion, prod-
gallty of them. The tree is but large bou-
qpet Il gives you twenty times as much as
mere Is need for, and evidently because it loves
to blossom We will praise this virtuous tree.
mol beautiful in form-one clumpy, cragged,
and rude but glorious in beauty, when efflor-
escen''g Nor is tia beauty only a, distance.
Pluck down twie, and examine as YOU will !.
il will bear the nearest looking. The simple
ity and purity Of The white expanded flower
the half open buds slightly blushed, the little
pink-tipped buds unopened, crowding up like
rosy children around an elder brother or sister 4,
Why, here is cluster more beautiful than anv
you can make up arti6cially, and you may
pick from the whole garden.-H. Ward Beech
err. eaah
BoNEs.-Have these carafollu s,ved Koon