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Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming

Chapter 193: FLOWERS, LADIES, AND ANGELS.
By Henry Ward Beecher
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A series of conversational essays and addresses mixes hands-on horticultural instruction with reflections on rural life, seasonal farm tasks, and domestic economy. Topics include fruit and flower cultivation, pruning, seed saving, plowing, manure theory, animal care, and crop management, alongside practical recipes, seed lists, and work calendars. The pieces pair technical tips with observations on beauty, health, and civic responsibility, encouraging readers to improve breeds and yields, beautify homesteads, and practice careful stewardship of land and gardens.

FLOWERS, LADIES, AND ANGELS.

If ladies wish to get into the very best company possible, we do not know of any pleasanter way than is detailed in this beautiful scrap from a German poet:

A flower do but place near thy window glass,
And through it no image of evil shall pass.
Abroad must thou go? on thy white bosom wear
A nosegay, and doubt not an angel is there;
Forget not to water at break of the day
The lilies, and thou shalt be fairer than they;
Place a rose near thy bed nightly sentry to keep,
And angels shall rock thee on roses to sleep.

And pray what will happen if a gentleman does all this? For one, we have a personal curiosity to know; for we do all these things and a good many more. If any other angels have hovered about us than angelic flowers, we make an especial request to them not, hereafter, to be so shy about it. Our natural eye would delight to behold in veritable substance all the flower-spirits which our ideality spies lurking in our garden-blossoms.