Successful Floriculture (Classic Reprint)

Flowers, says a writer, flowers, of all created things, the most innocently simple, the most superbly complex, playthings for childhood, ornaments of the grave, and com. panions of the cold corpse! Flowers, beloved by the idiot, and studied by the thinking men of science! Flowers, that unceasingly expand to heaven their grateful, and to man their cheerful looks; soothers of human sorrow; fit emblems of the victors triumph and the young brides blushes! Welcome to the crowded ball, and grateful upon the solitary grave! Flowers are in the volume of nature what the expression God is love is in the volume of revelation! What a desolate place would be a world without a flower 5it would be a face without a smile a feast without a welcome. A re not flowers the stars of earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven? One cannot look closely at the structure without loving it; they are the emblems and manifestation of God slove to the creation, and they are means and ministrations of mans love to his fellow creatures, for they first awaken in his mind a sense of the beautiful and good. The very inutility of flowers is their excellence and great beauty, for they lead us to thoughts of generosity and moral beauty, detached from, and superior to all selfishness, so that they are sweet lessons in natures book of instruction, teaching man that he liveth not by bread alone but that he hath another than animal life. The love and admiration of flowers is universal.
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