The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer. (Bel Air, Md.) 1862-1864, 1863-10-30
FIR Me Southern Ayis.
The Cultivation of Flowers.

that blooms, we lose ourselves in Wonder,
love aud praise When we consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow; they
toll not, neither do they spin, and yet
say unto you. Solomon in all his glory was
not ari:lyed, like one of these we are
led to look @through Nature up to Ma
lures Gnd ~
Exnmine this violet; notice it's delicate
huI---irs fragrance See how the flower,
after performing its mission of cuitvating
our sense Of the beautiful and pure, gra-
duaIly forms itself INFO curious receptacles
far those, tiny seed, which shall reproduce
from the dark earth an image Of tie parent
flo ter Remember, this is hut one Of
the thousand members of the floral iami-
y, who have each some peculiar beauty,
some different form of love lines.
We are not admirers Of what are call
ed sentimental people, who
Sigh for wretchedness, yet shun the wretched,"
who are forever signing for an earthly
paradise, which they never for one mo-
ment make an effort to create, aud whose
doleful standardization with me if |
coin word now and tlien-is enough to
give us the "bues,'' or make us exclaim
With the wisest of men. Vanity Of vani
| ties, all is vanity and veXation of spirit. 3"
We cordially detest all counterteits; but
because there are "greeubucks" in circu.
lation, is there no such thing in the world
as genuine coin We can only regard
| with rdlcule or anger, all attempts made
by sentimental impo tors on our feelings.
Ii all sentiment is ''vanity,' yet, like the
Rev. Mr., Stiggins OF "Pickwick" uotori-
cry, we ali have our ''particker vanity"
aud we shall always cherish and admire
that description of sentiment which
''Fnds tongues in trees books in the running
brook: ...f.,. .....
Sermons in stones; and good in every thing''-
That senttmentdiism which is not worn as
a garb of mourning, but as festival robe
which would not Interfere, if necessity
required, in cooking our dinner but
which would share that dinner with an
oufcast or IA beggar. .
Let US not, then, be ranked with that
class Of hyp"crites who have been mis-
called sentimental, when We express our
love for hewers, and declare that we fud,
4 TN each leaf a pulpit, g..
BE- Aud each cup II book,
Supplying to our fancy
Numerous teachers.
From loneliest nook ~
How greatly it woull add to the charms
of country life, if more attention was paid
to the cultivation of flowers If each
cottage and farm house were adorned
with climbing roses, or honey suuklrs, H..
each yard or lawn bright with flowers
and fragrant with their perfume! How
the "tlred deuizen Of the city, as he
wends his way past country dwellings,
would envy tie quiet beauty which sur,
ROUNDS its occupants, and perhaps receive
a lsson of benevolcnce from those
"Foral apostles who in dewy spleudor
'" Weep without Woe and blush without
". crime' 'tHa ..n
And what is more healthy, lady like and
refined, than cultivating by your own skill
and industry, those gifts Of our Creator
flowers. .0
Let any one begin, as an ex pertinent,
the cultivation of flowers, aud We promise
him that lie will be rewarded by "A pleas
ure IN them he never believed possible.
They will teach him of purer and better
land, for which we hope he is already
painting after, "even as the hart panteth
after the water bro ks" Well does St.
Augustine say, Chou hast formed US for
tbyself, 0 Lord! and restless is our
heart until it finds reposc in Thee"
"Were I, o God, in churchless lands remaining,
Far from the voice of teacher or divine,
would find in flowers of thy ordaining,
f1 af Priests, sermons, shrines y
SO wrote an old English poet; and say
with the Frenchman, "a chaque saint sa
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