F. B. Elliott recommends for indoor ornament during the winter, when many flower-lovers are not able to maintain a green-house, the use of Everlasting Flowers. These flowers are grown out-doors, and in the fall, at the right season, they can be cut, dried, and preserved for ready use. They retain their freshness and color through the entire winter, as bright as when first gathered. In the large cities quite a trade is carried on in the way of "Immortelles," or everlasting flowers, even to the importation of thousands; and there is no reason except that of neglect why every home fireside throughout the country should not in winter be made gay and beautiful with them. Their culture is no more difficult than that of any other hardy annual, while at all times during winter their flowers are invaluable to make gay the festive room, to deck the church or the school house, or in wreaths entwined to offer as tribute of memory, respect, and love on the bier of the dead.

In the cemetry, at all seasons of the year, no flowers are more appropriate wherewith to decorate than those of this class, for neither rain nor sun injures them when well prepared ; and while they in their brightness and bloom shadow the effulgence of a future world, their very name on earth is that of eternity.

The Rhodanthe is, perhaps, one of the very prettiest of all, its flowers being bell-shaped before fully expanded; and it is in that condition that many prefer to gather and dry them, as they then work in most charmingly with others of full-expanded form.

The centre figure should be a Waitzia, a variety of the Everlastings that blooms in clusters, very delicate, and of a beautiful clear yellow. These should always be gathered just as soon as they are fairly expanded ; for, if left on the stems exposed, they are liable to become dingy and the centres much discolored. The Xeranthemum is one of the easiest cultivated of any of the annuals - its seeds germinating freely, the plants transplanting well, and when grown to about one foot in height, blooming freely. They are of different colors. The Helichrysum as well as the Gromphrenas, the latter sometimes called English Clover - are also varieties of the Everlastings which should be grown by every one. The Helichrysum is one of the easiest to grow - any good soil will suit it; and the plants are vigorous and very showy even for the border in summer, and exceedingly valuable for the winter.