Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-16
IMfutn,e Of F;o,rers.

The pleasure of cultivating flower !
garden, and the particular love for its
products, are OF late growth in me, but
confess it the more willingly because
think it the result OF increasing wisdom
rather than the folly of age. 1t affords
quiet amusement, full of subjects for OBJ
serva,ion and thought, and I find pleas
ure in all the work. love to dig in the
loose mold that seems to move almost as
if it were alive. We should naturally
have liking for what we are made of
and for what is made of us, ana can get
no where so near to ourselves as by con-
tact with the brown mold, that is ma
lures unspoileI and manufactured
material, alive with all the wonders of
creation. No laboratory can produce
such wonderful combinations as the
earth. 1t dlssolvcs, absorbs and purifies
all things. The Parsees who, in their
love and reverence tor the earth, feared
to pol'ute it with any corruption, over
locked its most bencfcent attribute. It
takes into itselfall corruption and returns
only purity and beauty. And for lit
tie work what great returns one
gets. but give q little
| seed and the small charity of burial,
(and it is not mournfll funeral either,)
and am repaid not only with plenty of
flowers and seeds, but with the perpetual
pleasure of its constant growth
One must give care and companionship
! to plants and flowers to learn their crate
full nature and feel their b nehcent IN
! f1uences. Their healing virtues are not
| alone in their juices. Their "swcet in
| t1uences' come nearer and stronger than
| that of the Pleiades. They are unriva!ed,
too, as friends and companions. Their
conversation is always in charity and
| good sense. Spleen. egotism, envy are
never heard in a garden from an thing
that grows out OF the ground These are
noxious gases. that flowers can't abide
| Care there people who can't succeed in
growing flowers? as consequence they
are always agreeable companions; never
loud and disturbing; never cross and irri
tating. Go into the garden weary, angry.
or disappointed, and relief comes without
rest, or the nauseous dose of rebuke or
! coincidence. There is presence spirit
in the woods that becomes domesticated
in the garden. The solitude" of the
garden is pleasing, because in reality it
is the choicest companionship. l would
not have statutes in garden. The tin,1d
sylvan spirits that might hide behind a
rock or fountain, would flee from the
! glare of cut marble.
Then. how many things a little ground
will make room for. Ny garden is scarce
four square rods, and yet 1t would make
a respectable catalogue to name all the
plants in it. Almost all the countries of
earth have contributed to it; and though
think that Flora has been about equally
generous to all parts of the world, it is q
satisfaction that our republic of flowers,
like our political one, should be strength
encd from all countries. The growth of
flowers, too, is full of surprises; you
watch for the bloom of favorite with
great interest, to-day you can find no
sign of a bud, tomorrow the sly thing
will, perhaps, show you half developed.
Something has come to you from half
round the world, you have read descrip-
tons or seen pictures OF it's flowers, and
you know just how they look; or you are
watching patiently for bloom you do
not know, but suppose to be very rare
and beautiful-or you failed to get flow
ers from plant last year, and you do
not think it will do better this vear--in
these, and a hundred other ways, they sur.
prise, please, and disappiont you, and
keep up your interest, SO that having
once fairly made their acquaintance, you
dislike in double sense to cut them
d. =. d. IN ?ich's Nonahytor June.