The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-05-25
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Published By Request.
Flowers: Their Beauty, Culture, &c.

Published By Request.
Flowers !: Their Beauty, Culture, &c.
Written By Mss Jennie Heaps and read be-
fore Broad Creek Grange, March, 3D..
The attractveness and beauty of flowers
form an almost inexhaustible subject for
our consideration. Since the creation of
the world since they were first placed in
the garden of Eden, their voiceess lips have
been as living preachers to us; their care
full study serves to elevate our minds and
to draw them away, for a'time, from the
tolls and cares of the busy world around
us, and give a refining element to our
nature. Their beauties have been the en-
raptured theme Of poets of all ages, and
even in the present age, where the GAL
mighty Dollar" is so much priced and be-
loved by so many, the cultivation of flow
ers is not altogether neglected, but is GER
tainly neglected more than it should be-
God might have made this world of ours
without flower to shed its fragrance; but
in His great goodness He has decked the
earth in tlowery robes, that man might look
and love the Being who has strewn so
freely along the pathway of life the minis
try OF flowers. a
"There is q lesson in each flower,
story in each stream and bower;
In every herb on which we tread
Are written words, which rightly read,
VIII lead you from earth's fragrant sod
To hope, to holiness and God
Flowers are representation of Charity
Their beauty is not spread out before the
rich alone, but the whole earth is covered
with them, so that the poorest also may
enjoy them. If we are wealthy we can of
course be the possessors of the rarest flow.
ers and most costly exotics, but these will
not give us any more real pleasure than do
the most common flowers that surround
the dwellings of the poor. We should en-
deavor to make our homes more attractive
by the presence Of flowers in them 1t is
possible for US to do this to considerable
extent and with very little expense, if we
have such inclination. Even if our home
be ever so humble and poor, yet the pres
ence of flowers in and near it will cover
up and hide from our view deformities
that before were but too well represented
| to us. .H.H N.s..r Irt N
If we visit the dwelling of some poor
and seemingly degraded family, if however
mean and scanty their surroundings, we
should see single well cherished flower
blooming in the window, we cannot but
think that there is yet some hope for that
family finding its way a little better in the
world, and that they are at least trying to
do better. There is nothing better for
ladies, physically, than TO have the care of
flowers. What is more pleasant than to
spend a portion of each day in working
among plants, and to observe the opening
of flowers, from week to week. us the
season advancess Then it adds greatly
to our epjoymentto know that our own
hands have attended to them and cared for
them. This is a pleasure that requires
neither great riches or great knowledge,
and is free to each and every one who
chooses TO avail themselves of il. Some
of us may say that we cannot find time
for the culture of flowers. We should
make time, that is, SO arrange employments
that we shall not neglect this, what should
be to us o positive pleasure. 1t is said
that the advantage which woman person
ally gains from stirring the soil and inhal-