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Show WINTER BL08SOMI. Let us forget, for a little lime, this morning, the bleak winds and wintry atorma, and think and talk of flowers. Wu.como, O pure ar4 lovely form?, again IIdIo iho shadowy stillness of my room ! ; For, with you, alwayi corns a joyous train Of summer thought) attendant on your bloom Visions ot fresbneis, of rich bowery (loom. Of tli low murmurs Jilllng moay dellj, OCiUn Ihit look down on your folded bulla Through dewy leaves, of many a wild pt-n'ufno Urudintr tho wanderer of tho hill and rtovo Liko iudden mucc. How many of the bearla of our roaders echo these words of the poet ? And vt how few are the homes that are adorned and bleat with flowers, which bring ao many Summer mem-oriea mem-oriea to gild the ahadowa of chill Winter Win-ter 1 There ia no lime to bother. They never have any luck with QowerB. Their daily duties of more practical character take alt their attention. at-tention. And while, now and then, there comes some fresh burst of enthusiasm en-thusiasm on the Bubject, and a few spindling atalks are tho result, the general humor ia that "flowers we can't raise and thare's no use in trying." try-ing." We have in our mind's eye now,, frieudB who have used more than ordinary efforts to have flowers bloom for thwm in summer, and who have! drawn and carried water and labored with almost unflagging energy, to finally give up in despair and rest content with what few flowers there are that will flourish almoBt without care or thought. And it is moat discouraging to try to raiae flowers, in summer, where the sun is so scorching as it is here in Utah, and where there is so great scarcity of water. No wonder many givo up despairingly, insuoh attempts. Yet even in Utah there are flowers that will grow thrivingly. Double portulacoa with its brilliant colors of scarlet, crimaon, white, and orange, of various shades, aod variegated combinations, makes a bed of blossoms blos-soms unrivaled; and it Btanda the heat like a Salamander. TheD, too, roses, and climhara like the mignonette, migno-nette, or Maderia vine, the cobsea, and the passion vine, tho Virginia creeper, and the trumpet flower, with many another, will grow luxuriantly, luxuri-antly, when beneath the hot sun of Utah, if they but have a chance to strike their roots near the running rivulets of our Btreeta. But at this season thoughts are turned to winter flowerirjg plants for the house, and not to the more tiresome tire-some and disappointing task of outdoor out-door floriculture. And to raise these successfully requires no great omount of talent or of education, if hut a few simple points are observed, auch aa aro given by any work upon theaubject. Plants to do well must bavo the eua-ligbt. In any sitting-room sitting-room with a south-east, or east window, win-dow, be it plain or bow, there are many plants that will grow and blossom freely, if the window is tightly set to keep out the cold wind, and the thermometer never gocB below 10, if the atmosphere iu kept moist by evaporating water upon the stove. There ia the wide rangeof geraniumB, hyacinths, jessamines, azaleas, callaa. rosea, smilax, primulas, ageratums, begonias, abutilona, camelias, ivies, and a host of various greenhouse plants that will do well in such a temperature. And of late years, the attention of people is turning more to winter-bloomiDg planta than to Bummer Bum-mer gardens where neatly trimmed lawnn and ornamental foliage plants are crowding out the old-Btyle flowerbeds. flower-beds. There aro few homes iu this city where winter blooming hyacinths might not be grown with a!I their beauty and fragrance. We remember, in climbing the mountaiu peaks of Colorado some years ago, with what surprise and pleasure we came upon a great patch of crocuBea growing in a canon many thousands of ftct above the sea-level, and again upon another bank a cluster clus-ter of lobelias, and clumpBOf wild fl wers eeittered all over the canon side. What a strange contrast they formed to tho barren rocks so cloee above them, and the drills of anow banked up not far away ! And auch a contrast would we show at the window win-dow of tyery home iu Utah, in these drear days of mid-winter, had we but the wizard power. At leaat, we can urge upon our readers to devote some of their thought and time to the study of this pcetic aide of life, and to thus lighten Iho shadows that fall from the sterner realities. Grow flowers, bright flowera ! They speak of hope to tho fainting heart, TV ith a voico of promise they como and part. Tiny bL?ar with thorn thoughts ofsucnier h mrs, And Iho dreams of our youth grow tljwurs, sweet flowers. |