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should be a butier’s pantry, in which should be kept articles > Carefully attend to the watering of all the plants, giving of plate, 8c. “Glass and china belong to the butler‘s de it to each as often as necessary, and in proportion to its con partment.” Articles of plate should be well washed with sumption; observing always to administer it sparingly to hot water, and then be “rubbed over with a mixture of the succulent kinds. The pouring of water, occasionally, through the rose of a lovigated hartshorn and spirits of turpentine, which is an "Xcollt'nt preparation for cleaning plate and renewing its watering-pot. over the branches of the shrubby kinds would polish.” (100d leathers should always be provided for clean greatly refresh them, and wash oil' the dust collected on the

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ing plate, and tWo of them be kept in use, one, for rubbinar

leaves; which vould give them a clean and llit‘ltrillt; appear

oil" the powder, and the other for polishing.

ance: but this should be done late in the evening when the sun has lost its power for the day. Such pots as are plunged, must be turned full around in

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be cleaned once or twice each Week. The powder should be carefully and entirely rubbed off the plate. lest it retain the odor of the turpentine. When silver has been laid by for some length of time, and has become much tarnished, it

must be well boiled in soap and water before it is cleaned with the powder

their seats at least once a Week, to prevent the. roots pone

trating into the surrounding earth, through the holes in the bottoms of the pots. WIJ'NN MA'vI’I’M’NMJIrI/N

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OUR GARDEN FOR AUGUST. Bulbmss Root: for autumn blooming should all be in the ground the first week in this month. if they were not planted in July.

The seeds of tulips, lilies, hyacinths, crown im

FASHIONS FOR AUGUST. Fm. L—Dla'xsa Danes or Piss (_iao..vnr.—The skirt is trimmed with seven tlounccs. Body high, with a low under lining and round at the Waist. Over this body a cape of the material of the dress may be worn at pleasure. A bow and

perials, narcissuses, irises, or of any other kind of bulbs,

ends of pink silk, trimmed with a ﬁgured ribbon, is worn at

whose needs are ripe, may now be sown. in order to obtain new varieties. These, if sown as soon after being ripe as they are sufﬁciently dry and hardened, will vegetate the ensuing spring; but if kept out of the ground till that period, very few of them will come up for a full year after. Collecting Flowering Plants from the Woods. Fields, and Swamps—Many beautiful ornamental plants may now be collected from the woods. ﬁelds, and swamps, which would grace and embellish the flower garden and pleawure-grounds, if introduced there, and that at a season when the general

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run of cultivated ﬂowers are out of bloom; such as lobelias of various kinds, asters, enphorbias, gentianns, hardy her baceous geraniums, hibiscuses, different kinds of irises, lysi

niachias or lone-stripe, orchises. oxaiises. phloxes, solidugon or golden rod, spigeiias, veronicas, varieties of the lily. to gether with an immense number of other beautiful plants. All the above, and any other kinds you meet with, that are

Worthy of notice, may be taken up, whether in, or out of ﬂower, with balls of earth, brought home, and planted im mediately; on taking them up, cut off the ﬂower stems, if any, and when planted give water and shade for a few days

Short sleeves composed of tw'o iufiics.

Fro.“ n.—W.u,sixo Dasss or Fara-en Suit, 1! LILAC arm vni'rs Srn|i>ss.-—.lantle of the same material as the dress. Sun hat of white French lawn, trimmed with a bouquet of field ﬂowers. Fro. tin—Gm": Bonr.-—-This is a new style entirely. The dress is of poplin of a striped or chequered. pattern, on a grey ground. it is trimmed with buttons and braid of the color called Groseilles-du-Alprs. The cot-sage is open in front and high at the hack; it forms a ga'lrt in flout of the waist and a basque behind. The sleeves are wide and with a small epauiot on the shoulder. The corsago and sleeves are trim med with braid, GroscilIes-du-Alpcs. The skirt has a tiouuce a la Anglm'sr. with a small heading edged with braid. Flo. iv.—Ln..u: Sink Darss, trimmed with th-unces of the

same, which last are themselves decorated with a narrow lilac ilonnce of a darker tint. ilody high and plain. Waist round. with a band. Five large bows of lighter lilac in the middle and darker outside decorate the front.

Sleeves wide

and long, slashed open in front. The fullness at top and at the Wrist is confined by flat plaits. The edge of the opening

to the ﬁbrous-rooted kinds; next year they will flower luxu is trimmed with a flounce having a narrow one under it of riantly, inter which, each sort may be propagated in its a darker tint. In this sleeve there is a very full tulle sleeve proper season. Observe in planting, to give each respective ten inches longer than the arm so as to form puffs. A lilac kind a soil and situation as nearly similar as possible to that gimp trimming fastened to four buttons on each side crosses in which you found it in its wild state. the opening in zig-zngs. through which the tulle is seen. A Flowering Plants in Pots-Such annual and other tlower- - large tnilc puff at the end terminates the sleeve. A bow ' " I ¢ J

‘ ~ “ P J f I / I J I J I I f I ‘ I ing plants as are in pots must now be carefully supplied with like those on the body is placed at the. top of the sleeve on water; some kinds requiring it twice a day in very dry the shoulder. The dress has three rows of fiounces. 'l he weather, others once a day, and a few sorts not so often. As first. at top, consists of three ﬂounccs a nail wide. The to the Consumption of water, there is an astonishing differ

ence in tho constitutions of plants, some absorbing and dis charging it so quickly as to excite surprise, and others but

very slowly; therefore you must supply esch respective kind, according to its habit and necessity. Ilcrbacenus I’lanls that are past bloom should be cut down now, the earth should be loosened in the tops of all pots

containing ﬂowering plants, and box edging should be trim med if required. Also gather ﬂower-seeds as they ripen and preserve them till the season of sewing; most kinds will keep better and longer in their pods or husks than when rubbed fut.

Shifting into larger Pet: and giving fresh earth to plants, should be done in the ﬁrst week in this month, particularly with oranges, lemons, and to such other plants as are too much confined, and that have perfected their spring and summer shoots, previous to their beginning to push their autumn growths.

second, three ﬂounces about an inch wider.

The third, four

tiounces, an inch wider still. These fiounces are pinked in vandykcs and slightly drawn. They have each a little under-fiounce an inch and a half wide, also pinkcd and drawn nmch fuller than the upper ﬂounce. These little under-ﬂounccs are sewed under the larger tiounce, so as for - about an inch of their width to be covered. Lace collar. F10. v.—Wsi.mxo Dasss, with the fashionable Cusaque,

loose ﬂowing sleeves, and skirt embroidered in front.

This

is a very beautiful dress for the sea-shore or springs. Flo. va—Jacxsr or “'nm: Pious oa Maassnmss, with

half-tight slecves,just allowing the band to pass; the bot tom of the sleeve is embellished with a fcstooned trimming, as is also the collar. A handsome binding is put on the edge of the cuff. The ﬁgures on the front of the jacket are formed by a braid like that on the cuffs; small buttons are interspersed here and there among the braiding. Fm. vu.—Tns Ficnu CARLOTTA, composed of bouillonnes