June. 174 THE WEST SH011E. LOVE'S MISSION. HV MM. M. T. CAN BY. I uw .1 hillside steep and long, V. two fair children upward nt!tifi, TI.eir merry converts 011 Sowing With 1uujHtt-r and Willi song. The WMf WSJ rough U) tread, but they DancodUghiiy o'ei the rocky ledgca; An I, where the Strain was hid in Bodges, They leapt like fawns at play. Td sj h wM not 'he lowering ilrltii Hut plcuktd the tragus nWrets growing Beneath Um bodge, i he inoW'bloon throw! og Abo TO thell mirthful eyes; Ami with the Inn!-' swcel nmdfl.iy, Thiir ttilvi'iy roioea ntuigled clearly. Singing, " We IdVe each other desrlyi" So wenl they on their way. Then up the liilWtde two fame on; A youth wno lod a gentle maiden, Fair as the lilies, DSfftirnc laden, Which greet the smiling dawn. Am! sw the ntUtwny rough to thein? Nflyj rath- r road (i kindly treading With nn'r.il'l pave helots them spreading, Kjajdawod with many a gem; 'J'fii Bower than hkc seemed mtire rare, Than violets, tm i' pCffumc 'lenrer, 'l'u: bird' song never bad been dearer) I'dt lave made .ill things lair. Wiih clasped ban li ami tranqu.il mien, T... ii happy thoughts InilltflOS reading, Alun,; ill, psuhway steep, proceeding They paued beyond my ken. Again upon that nigged way Two w.ilU'il, as nijdit fell c alm and holy, Togetbjl walked, Imt gravely, slowly, With words more sad than t;ay. II in hul wi the minu s vesK-r Mini;, Within ihen hoods the Ho wen were sleeping) The chilly ni,:hi dews o'et them weeping) The stream was wide and strong. It ii piaahiy went they on their road, Watching a golden stai uplifting Its iaj.i t thrmih the dark clouds drifting, Aiii. in ! n, ihie abOdCi With laces mlm and accenli fund. They trod the shadowed pathway, brook ng Tlic toil nod dhnaiwe, patient looking Imh i ,'i! .in i not kwyoshi 0IRL8 ami R0SE8. t.sfTBn TO TUB POHMBRi Tlwy go together so naturally that Tctlnyton Jus! expressed it whoa ha called ii certain wcioty a "rosebud gar den o( girls The courtly poet of two centuries earlier, Wauiii, felt the K.uui) imth, when he wrote these c quUlte lnens,i mo, ti.Tety Ratal T- U tn'l Unit W:t1i her time .unl iiii', 'Pint now hi' knows W )- i roassnbli her to tii, llnw iW.t't I'M liur the wenl to Iw." The poets have always recognised tin likeness, and will continue to, while they Interpret girl-nature end rot nattinj might. When I was last In California, tli.it l.itul nf roses, and of nil manner of floral beauty and luxuriance, I lived in ;i city boarding house, away from gardens and flowers, greatly lo my regret Hut 1 had one compensa tion In if young girl, a fellow-boarder, whose race was as iweel oi flower, anil Who always came to dinner with some beautiful bud or blossom care I teal anil gracefully placed in her hair nml bceom. You bee, aha attracted Rowers, being luch a rare one hertelf, and admiring frlendi tent t hem daily to her rooms, though ihe was hidden away in n city boarding-house. Ami ohe, with sweetness that agreed well with her flower-like race, pereetving how my famished eye feasted on her lUttr Rowers, that made with herself auch a chat mint; hooiet, tell into the nwmton of daily bringing with bet to dinner n little knot of choice thing, rOMDudJo, heliotrope, lemon-verU-na, geranium, and the like, which she laid beolde tny plate. How 1 loved lu r for the pretty action! and fbt her sweet fjulf. She wis truly one of the faitet of the "rosebud garden ot g;:!-." When I was a child I used to walk in the garden of my mother's home every morning in the rose-season so short in the Eastern States and going around among the shrubbery, kiss all the freshly opened roses, with n real sentiment of loudness for them; and I have seen a little neice of mine do the same thing, I suppose she inherited this trait from tie, as she once very gravely informed me sin. ,!M another one. She Inherited it, as I did, from my mother whom we both have rea son to thank for a large capacity for enjoyment of an innocent and elevating pleasure, These remarks arc offered ;is an ln traduction to an observation on Oregon j farm life. In travelling through this beautiful and favored country of my I adoption, 1 have been pained to ob serve the little pains (alien to beautify the country homes by the cultivation : of flowers, especially roses, which ! really require but little labor to bring . to perfection. I will not charge it Upon the girts of Oregon that they do not care for Mowers, for I do not be lieve it would be true. The answers I should get if I asked for reasons, would probably he about as follows: "Father,1 or Mthe boys will not keep the fence in repair." "Father lets the stock into the yard to cat the grass.H "The boys keep so many dogs, and they run over and destroy the beds." nVe cannot keep the chickens out," or "the ground becomes so dry in summer that nothing grows well1 These 1 admit are difficulties Hut I will give you a hint, When I was a gill I went to visit an tun ic w ho lived in a frontier state. I found him living iii a large house surrounded by a rough board fence that enclosed about an acre of ground There was not a tree or shriih in the enclosure, and not much grass; and as the country was one (ijead level, the prospect was not an InVlnng. one to my eastern eyes. When I had been there a tittle while, I asked mv aunt and gtrlCOUslns why they had no tree-, flowers, or shrubberv ; and Ibutstl that my uncle thought he Could not give his time or labor to things of 10 little Importance He had spent' the best strength of his middle life in sub duing the wlldness of nature to the positive needs of himself and family. Those needs still existed in a measure at all events, he now w anted to become rich, and had "no time for nonsense1 As my aunt talked about it, the tears ran over her cheeks she 10 loved these things she was never to enjoy again. I found, too, that this woman, I w ho had spent the prime of her life laboring side by side with this matt, I was alVoid of him Not that he was I feared by anybody else, but that he ex lercised bis manly prerogative of keep ing his wife in subjection; and iter's I WOI ti gentle, loving, yielding and I longeuflering disposition, that could tlOt defend its lights. The man was myielatie by blood good blood it I WOS, too. The woman was my con I licet i-n by marriage; and my chivalry was ai.msed to see her wrongs righted. I 1 talked over the subject with my ' uncle quite earnestly, once or twice, a Spring came on, but 1 could get no en couiagemciit in the business of plant ing out trees and shrubK-ry as 1 pro posed. Then I took mv resolution, for 1 kept thinking of the team on the (faded cheeks of the kindest woman in the Wi'iid. who was married to this i '...ui i.ti t w.. i- MuhUirn relative of mine. Mv uncle went to town one day, ami I went over to the mill and had an interview with the men who were hauling log from the w oods, two mile awav. They hsssltsted and objected, but I laid 1 would take the whole resKnibility on ' myself, and finally they yielded. Two men went to digging holes around in side the before-mentioned inclosure, and two other men proceeded with the logging team to the woods, whither they were accompanied by myself, aunt, ami cousins. Such a load of woodsy stufl'as we took home with US I When my uncle returned from town that evening he found everybody on the place working for dear life, setting nut trees, shrubs, and vines. When he drove bi hnndome matched team up to the gate, my aunt vanished into the house in a very cowardly fashion; but I called out, "Uncle, are n't those two trees by the gat. perfect beauties? to which he responded "you must put a bucket of water in every hole", as if he had been superintending the job himself, which he was, in less than fifteen minutes; nor did I ever hear a won! of dissatisfaction with the audac ious interruption of his business. When I saw- that place again, ten years afterwards, I was proud of that day's work. It was a beautiful grove, sheltering the house in ii- midst from the strong prairie winds, and affording a pleasant shade to young and old, as well as being an object of beauty in the landscape, visible fur miles around. 1 I was delighted to find the wild grapes j we had planted forming a fruitful arbor; and wisteria and other beautiful vines, and roses, sent from the East growing in the most luxuriant manner, while a neat substantial fence enclosed the whole. My uncle showed twice the pride in this result of our joint labors that mv aunt did, but 1 doubt if he enjoyed it more. Girls, do you see the point? Go to work in earnest to do the thing that ought to be done, and your ideas will win recognition ami support. That man would be coarser and harder than many men are likely to be, if, when he sees you have set your heart on hav ingobjects of beauty, comfort and ele gance about you, he should refuse to lend a helping hand. lie will, rather, enjoy and protect your precious floral beauties when he sec., as he must, the excellence of them. Hut many of the objections raised, and quoted above, are substantial ones The stock and the chickens should be confined within boundaries of their own, and within these flowery reserves of yours noth ing should be permitted to come that destroys or disturbs. Water, in the heat and draught of Summer, not being easily obtained on farms in some parts of the country, is an objection to floriculture to a great extent. That which produces trie best gene ral effect and greatest amount of pleas ure, is a smooth green lawn, with a few ornamental trees not too near the house, and choice flowering shrubbery placed al proper intervals not to look crowded. No trees nor vines should be allowed to touch the walls of the house. Porches, on which may be trained ivy, or wisteria with its elegant purple clusters of blossoms, or the honeysuckle, are very pretty and at tractive; though nothing should be permitted to overspread even a porch, to the exclusion of light. Choice llowering shrubs, and roses, may be set in rows up the walk, or what is better, in groups scattered about the vard and relieved against the green sward. The earth should not be broken up for beds of annuals, K'c.uw in the dry season they fade and die, and bare earth is un sightly. If you wish to cultivate annu als, let a bed be made in the kitchen garden for these, but do not break the sod in the front yard except alnnit the rmts of the shrubberv : or omctimcs to cut out a single round sod to put down some bright-colored verbenas, or portu-laccas, in certain places, which has a very pretty effect. Do not have trees of a large growth near the house; but along the front fence some of light foliage and graceful forms, like the black locust, with white flowers, the laburnum, with its drooping clusters of yellow flowers, the white, and purple lilac, &c. For large trees, nothing is handsomer than to have a contrast like the catalpa, with broad leaves and pink ish white flowers, and just beyond it the small-leaved, slender-stemmed tow ering elm. Both of these may be re lieved against a stately Norway fir. Everybody has a favorite tree, and so I will not attempt to give anything but general rules. Two or three kinds, grouped with care have a handsomer effect than several of the same kind. I will mention for the benefit of those not well acquainted with a variety of shrubs, a few of the best, mentioning them in the order of their blooming: Japan Quince, (red); White Splrea; Wigelia Rosea, (rose color); Shrub Honeysuckle, (pink) ; Lauristina, (white); Althca, double, deep rose); besides the better known Almond, Mock-Orange, Lilac, Snowball and Flowering Currant. In selecting roses, it is desirable to obtain free bloomers, as well as some constant bloomers. Among the choicest are the Tea-scented roses all of which bloom a great deal. The Snffronla, a buff-yellow with an orange centre and crimson streaks on the outer petals, very handsome and de liclously fragrant. Cro motel In, (yel low), very large, very fragrant. Mar shall Neil, (pale yellow), very elegant, and the most deliclously sweet of anv. White Tea, a beautiful and delicate rose. All these bloom early, and if they have water, continue to bear some flowers all summer, and even until December. The Giant of Hattles is a brilliant red rose and free bloomer; Louis IMdllippe, dark crimson; Hermosa, delicate rose color; Austrian Brier, deep yellow and single; La Keine, large, pink. Among the hundreds of varieties, these are some of the best. If you wish, as of course you do, for small and scented flowers to make into little sweet breast-knots occasionally, you must have some pots of mignon ette, helltrope, lemon-verbena', rose geranium, Lady Washington gerani ums of one or two colors, double scar let geranium, mountain -of-snow gera nium, (w hite), sweet illyslum, tree-car-nations and pansies. If not all of these, some of them. The scarlet salvia is a very brilliant flower for boipiets hut not fragrant; red, and white fuschias, the same. Mine flowers are very rare. The forget-me-not is one of the prettiest. The blue namophela is also very deli cate, and the blue lobelia, charming. There is no difficulty about raising any of these. Nothing is rctpiircd but the proper soil, a little care and enough, and not too much warmth and moisture. As to the roses, the yellow ones are the most delicate and should be protected about the roots and stalks with a cover ing of straw if a "hard winter" is threatened especially should the croni atella be so iniarded. If these beauti- . fid things are not to be had by exchange w ith your neighbors, rhcy can be ob tamed for no great amount of money of a gardener or nurseryman, and will I odd more refinement and happiness to your lives than half a doen new dresses it year. In such a climate as Oregon, j every country home should te embow- j ercd In beauty and fragrance, and every country-girl should be as fresh and sweet as her own favorite roses. A good Kn.k and a beautiful flower are ; full of delights that are as wholesome as they are refining in their influence i " Home i not home w ithout them."