Aug. 19—Cabbages are generally - associated. with the vegetable garden and very few people use the ornamental varieties for flower garden decoration. When a few plants are seen in the windows of a florist, they are probably bought more as a curiosity than anything else, but if space is available there is no reason why a packet of seed should not be sown in the same way as other crops. Leaves of the "Habotan'" or ornamental cabbage are variegated and quite attractive and as a packet of seed costs a $1 which is less than a single plant will east at a later date. is is worth buying. Writing of vegetables in the flower garden reminds us of the beds of beetroot and sugar beet that appeared in gardens in England during the last War and the use that is made in gardens here of Swiss Chard and Globe Artichokes in Spring. The proprietor of a large export nursery in Japan called on us today and gave us some news regarding bulbs. It appears that several large orders for shipment to America have been cancelled recently and that a very large stock of good bulbs will be available for distribution here this year, and as a large stock generally means cheap prices those of us who like a fee of the various bulbs in our garden máy be able to get them at more reasonable prices than we had to pay last year. There is also another point to consider: the best bulbs (and all the best seeds for that matter) are generally sent to America and we have to be content with. second-class produce. However, we hear from Holland: that tulips are now being dried and types, for these never give us full satisfac-activities e tion, it is only occasionally that weather conditions allow them to remain in flower more than a week or so; but they would probably also use the "Darwin" types, which, it is presumed. would make just as good "coffee" early-flowering varieties, give us a better return for our money than the Others: they bloom later, are not so easily damaged and they remain in bloom for a much longer period To talk of friendship with those in whom our reason forbids us to have faith, and our affections, wounded through a thousand pores. instruct us to detest. is madness and folly,—Thomas Paine, 1
Although men are accused for not knowing their own weaknesses yet perhaps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in where sometimes there is a yet of the owner knows no? of—Dean Swift Whatever you say. if you say it with a Examine the ions and feelings. of man-ihe doctrine of reconciliation io ten experience of "Bet though the past is gone beyond we have the furure—the future with sins'. The into: in Matthew's Gospel from their sins. of rest to the souls' of men, object of His ministry was to wrong-doing. is the condition. one condition repeatedly insisted on in the Gospels. This is more between man a! indeed a requisite ingredi the two terms are to be Sorrow for sin and complete it are not ar! conditions which chooses to exact before bestowing a boon; they belong to the very essence of the personal relationship between the Father and a relationship which has been impaired or broken by error i stored in purpose in the universe. In his serious readiness to ce-operate with the Divine Life' Longfellow writes:
Let the Past bury its dead! Act—act in the living Present! Heart within, and God overhead!
When soldiers came to arrest J two ways open to Him in whi His death. He might have waited for it: stead, He went to meet His enemies. He took up the Cross, the cup of anguish was not forced between His lips, He took is with His own hands, and drained it to the last drop. In later years the disciples understood th acted on it, They did not wait until overtook them; they braved the
unpopular unpalatable doctrines of the fronted the world; they p Resurrection and the Cross until it was said they had "turned the world upside down." "These doctrines are still unpop palatable but b; venturous life ther of pain or irreparable error, lin, chastened and 420 days have been 1,615 tors. The follow:—
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