Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1872-06-27

Yes, cultivate flowers. Plant them IN
your gardens and door-yards, plant them
in your windows and verandahs and SET
them in your rooms Their presence is
cheerful, to care for them is a pleasant
recreation, their influence is eleyating and
refining The Great Architect, in His
infinite wisdom, implanted in the hearts
of the human race natural love of tie
beautiful. The earth is full of beauty.
All around us we meet with objects which
excite pleasant emotions, and among them
the myriad forms and tints of the flowers
minister to our pleasure, surprise us with
their beauty, and excite our wonder. We
plant tiny seed, or bury a bulbuous
root, or transplant a thorny shrub. or an
ordinary looking vine, and 10, in short
time with little care, come forth ere
ations wondrous in beauty, mysterious in
form, and marvellous in fragrance They
have been aptly called "reminiscences of
Eden, and prophecies of heaven,the splen-
did children of the sun and the jewerly of
the soil. They are silent ministers OF
peace and gladness.
Referring to their usefulness, DIR. Gre
CORY, of the Illinois Industrial University,
in one of his addresses, says of them /:
beautiful in form, beautiful in color,
beautiful in arrangement, infinite IN var
ietv. endless in profusioD, decking without
reluctance the poyr mans cot, Frightening
without pride-the rich ne;n's home, bloom :
ing with wild content in the ioie'y forest
eladcs, and on the universited mountain
sides, blazing without ambition in the
public PARKS, shedding their fragrance
without stint in the chambers of sickness.
cheering without reproach the poor wretch
in the prison cell, blushing in the hair of
virtuous beauty. and shedding without
blush their beautiful light on the sefied
brow of bcr fallen sister, sleeping IN the
cradle with the innocent life of infancy
and blooming still in the coffin with the
.elay that remains after that life is spent,
scattering their prophetic bloom through
orchard and field where robust industry
prepares its victories, and lighting up the
arayeyards with undismayed promises,
seeming no surroundings however hum
bic or however sinful, fiinging beauty in
the most precious and the most worthless
things and places; they are Gods incar-
mated smiles shed forth with love that
friehtens our poor justice out OF Its wits,
and with an infinite justice that puts our
uttermost love to the, blush, teaching us
a theology better than the creeds, and
science letter than the schools; at once
mocking and stimulating the arts; kissing
rs when we fall, vet refusing to let US lie
quiet in our prostration. and perpetuaiy
nrging on the great heart OF humanity py
heir nfyriad and unending illustrations
the lesson of infinite truth is that DIVINE
Fatberhood which has given their sPien-
dor to the lilies, and told us I'll a. Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed IKE one
of these. e
Sucb are the lessons taught by the
aawers. and none need be withoue these
s;lent teachers. They are within the reach
of the hunbiest family, to afford cneer
and comfort in thesruggeds battle OF me-
as we'll as to deck the hoHe OF the al
fluent, - 50 st,,,s;va.--
ted evevFmhese sand il may be- ha1lea as
healthy sign of the tunes that the number
of ,,rofessional florists are increasing, ana
that large establishments. west-as-weli as
east. are being built up by cons.au.,y
commerce in this line OF pus
;ness Cultivate taste for flowers. learn
tbe children to love them and You VIII nno
= reward in refined feelings; good lmpul-
sos and asnirations which exercise po-
tent,al influence in making men and wo-
men wiser, happier and better.