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Title: The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste
Year: 1846 (1840s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : Luthur Tucker
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pleasureto their owners ; but when frost once locks upthe ground, or even on its first coming nipsour summer flowers, the trouble ceases to be considered, and we begin to recall the oldfavorites, rename the varieties, and to anticipate the tender pleasures their contrasts ofform, color, and fragrance are to give us before the crocus and bluebird once more in-vite us out into the fields. Flowers seem to have some mysterious connection with themind ; the love of them, or at least an active interest in them, manifests itself in every oneat some time in his life. It is not surprising that children, however poor or ignorant, should be attracted bythem ; but it is not children only who confess their power; men of middle age, who arehardly able to struggle against the waters of adversity or support the weight of business,will find time to pluck a flower for child or grandchild, maid or wife, or even for theirown button-hole on some gala day. A pot of geranium or violets, in the cobwebbed and
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46 Winter Gardens. dirty window of a tenement house, will be noticed and admired, and perhaps praised byhundreds, who rush past only too glad to escape the confusion, dirt, or squalor whichreign triumphant on all sides. To argue the universality of this love is as useless as to argue the importance andvalue of fresh air to the lungs. We know that it is so, and few will venture to deny it. Many who cultivate flowers are interested because others buy them, and they devotetheir time to them with no more particular regard for the flowers themselves than ifthey were bales of goods, or boots and shoes. But this is true only of the flowers they produce themselves ; let the most mercenaryflorist go out into the country for a holiday stroll, or visit the gardens or houses of a neigh-bor, and he will show, by his attention to the flowers he sees, his comments on theircolor, form, habits, that he really understands and responds to their power as individuals,independently of any possible selling

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