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Show Tlie fblUlreirit Flower Beds. j Most children seem to have a natural j desire to cultivate flowers and have some of their own, and if this propensity was duly encouraged it would become a per- inauent trait of their characters. It , would make them observing and famil- j iar with the laws of nature. To know ( tlie names of the different flowers and i plants of one's country and the wondrous processes of their growth is almost equiv- aleut to a liberal education. Snch knowledge knowl-edge enlarges the iniiid and softens and ; refines - tho nature, and thereforo wo should allow our children, boys and girls alike, to have their little flower' beds' in pleasant and well prepared places instead of in out of the way spots, as is usually the case, if our boys were taught to love and cultivate flowers they would not when they become husbands, as husbands now sometimes do, begrudge their wives sufficient land for a decent : flower garden.--Mra. Burton W. Potter 1 in Springfield Homestead. i |