We condense the following from the Cottage Gardener. It presents a pleasing picture which we should be glad to see more common. We think we can see woman's hand in it all.

"Oh. give him taste ! Tt is the link

Which binds us to the skies - A bridge of rainbows thrown across

The gulf of tears and sighs; Or like a widow's little one -

An angel in a child - That lead* him to his mother's chair,

And shows him how she smiled".

To show you that the admission of vegetable life into bed-rooms is more in vogue than formerly, I will give you a rough sketch of such an apartment which I was privileged to enter, and nave permission to describe. The occupier of this apartment recognizes the principle, that"

"Whatever cheerful and serene Supports the mind, supports the body too".

At the end of the room is the window with balcony, from which spring clusters of blossoms of intermingled Calyttegia pubescent and TVopaolums. These run up either side of the window on lattice-work. From an ornamental terra colla jardiniette rise plants of Lysimaehia nummularis, covering a wire-work screen with their golden blossoms. Fronting the window are the toilette-table, glass, etc. In the first break on the left hand side of the room is the washband-stand; over this engravings and pictures in oil colors, etc, etc. The middle projection contains a gas stove with flue entering the chimney; above this the mantel-piece. At each end is a case of Ferns and Mosses arranged amid rockwood, colored scenery at the back imparting an additional charm.

Over one of these cases we find the lines -

"The green and graceful fern,

How beautiful it is There's not a leaf in ail the land

80 beautiful, 1 wis.

"Have ye e'er watch'd that ball unfolding, Withh each stem an 1 leaf wrapp'd small,

Coil'd up within each other Like a round and hairy hall?

"Have ye watch'd that ball unfolding,

Each closely nestling curl. and its fair and feathery leaflets

Their spreading forms unfurl?

"Oh, then most gracefully they wave

In the hedges like a sea. And dear as they are beautiful

Are those jern leaves to me".

Over the other case -

"The tiny moss, whose silken verdure clothes The time-worn rock, and whose bright capsules rise, like fairy urns, on stales of golden sheen, Demand our admiration and our praise As much as cedars kissing the blue sky Or Krubul's giant flower. God made them all, And what He deigns to make should ne'er be deem'd Unworthy of our study and our love".

Between the cases is a duplex statue in plaster, and amid the centre ornaments a bouquet of choice flowers.

Over the mantel-piece are views of the localities in which the Ferns were collected - Llangollen Vale, Tenby, etc. Above up to the ceiling are photographic and lithographic portraits, surmounted by the Art Union head of Christ.

In the next break we find pictures printed in colors, and a heating flue in connection with a system of hot water apparatus. Lastly, next the door is a table with Wardian case, containing Ferns and Mosses, many of them exotic.

"Of all modes of enlivening the aspect of an apartment there is, perhaps, none more pleasing than the sight of plants and flowers suitably arranged and distributed. The enjoyment and instruction they afford are within the reach of all; the poor may partake as well as the rich. Great means and appliances are not needed. To the thoughtful mind the contemplation of the phenomena of vegetation is a constant source of interest."Especially is this so to the Christian. Whatever he finds "Of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad, majestic oak To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God".

E. A. C.