Spitting Blood.-Three tea-spoonfuls of sage juice in a little honey. A Bruise.-Apply a plaster of chopped parsley mixed with butter. To prevent Swelling from a Bruise.-Immediately apply a cloth five or six times doubled, dipt in cold water, and re-dipt when it grows

warm.

To cure a Swelling from a Bruise.-Foment it half an hour (morning and evening) with cloths dipt in water as hot as you can bear, or a bruised onion.

For a Cough.-Drink a pint of cold water when you get into bed. The Cramp.-Be electrified through the part which uses to be affected, or hold a roll of brimstone in your hand.

A Cut.-Bind on toasted cheese.

Deafness. Be electrified through the ear, and use the cold bath. An intermitting Fever.-Drink warm lemonade in the beginning of every fit.

To draw out Thorns, Splinters, etc.-Turpentine spread on wash leather. When you can't Sleep (Vigilia).-Take a grain or two of camphor before getting into bed.

Ulcer.-Foment morning and evening with a decoction of walnut leaves, and bind the leaves on.

Inflamed Uvula.-Touch it frequently with a brush steeped in camphorated spirits of wine.

Relaxed Uvula.-Bruise the veins of a cabbage leaf, and lay it hot on the crown of the head; repeat, if needed, in two hours.

Warts.-Rub them daily with a radish when in season, or with the juice of marigold flowers.

Weak Ankles.-Hold them in cold water a quarter of an hour, morning and evening.

To cure Night Perspirations.-Drink a gill of warm milk at bed-time in bed.

To prevent the Toothache.-Rinse your mouth well in cold water every morning, and rinse well after every meal when practicable. All rough and cutting powders destroy the teeth, so do all common tinctures. Sweetmeats are apt to hurt the teeth, if the mouth be not rinsed afterwards. Cracking nuts and biting off thread often cracks and chips the enamel. Constant use of toothpick is bad.

When in Extreme Thirst.-Drink spring water, in which a little sal prunella is dissolved.

RULES FOR A SICK ROOM.

1. A sick room should be kept very sweet and airy. If the weather is warm enough, let the door or window be open; if cold, let there be a small fire. The chimney should never be stopped up.

2. It should be made rather dark, by a blind over the window; but bed-curtains should not be drawn close.

3. It should be very clean. The floor should be wiped over with a damp cloth every day.

4. As soon as medicine comes, read the labels and directions carefully. The medicines should be kept in one particular place, and all bottles, cups, etc. that are done with should be taken away at once.

5. The room should be kept very quiet. There should be no talking nor gossiping; one or two people at the most, besides the invalid, are quite enough to be there at a time.

6. The sick person's face, and hands, and feet should be often washed with warm water and soap, and the mouth be rinsed with vinegar and water; the hair should be cut rather short, and be combed every day.

7. Never give gin, rum, or other spirits, unless ordered by the medical attendant. Sick people always feel weak, but such things given at a wrong time would only make them weaker.

8. When a person lies long in bed, take great care that the back and hips are kept clean and dry. If any place looks red or tender, dab it twice a day with some spirit, and arrange thin pillows so as to take the weight off the tender parts. If the skin comes off, apply yellow basilicon ointment.

WHAT

HAT a wondrous thing is vegetation! Take a trowel full of earth, and look attentively at it. There does not seem anything creative or sustaining about the black mass; yet put the bulb of a lily into this bit of earth, and see what it shall develope with the aid of the sun, the shower, and the atmosphere,-a thing so beautiful, that Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. And so we cannot wonder at a garden being a spot of earth made peculiar ground; for it is full of sweet wonders, and of the smiles of God's goodness, which flowers are so truly said to resemble. And again, it soothes the mind with a balm fresh from Eden, and renovates the soul and gladdens the eye. I do not think I ever knew any one who rejoiced in a garden who was a sour-complexioned soul. God Almighty placed man in a garden in the first blessed state of his being, and walked therein with him; and it can be so again, though not continuously as then; but we can still snatch a few hours of calm enjoyment from the turmoil of life, and delve amidst the beauties of flower-life,-working thus far in harmony with Him who hath clothed the hills with verdure, and strewed about our pathway the blooming reminiscences of the better land.

The following instructions are culled from the excellent little manual of Mr. Carter, of the well-known firm of Messrs. James Carter, Dunnett, and Beale, of 237 and 238 High Holborn, W.C., to whom I can confidently recommend my readers for all matters appertaining to garden culture, the purchase of seeds, etc. :

JANUARY.

Where there is the convenience of a vinery at work, commence about the last week in the month to pot off from the store pots the plants intended for bedding out, beginning with scarlet geraniums and other free-rooting varieties, leaving verbenas and other more tender bedders

until next month. Plants reserved in the autumn for the purpose of furnishing spring cuttings, such as Heliotropes, Fuchsias, Lantanas, Cupheas, Verbenas, and Lobelias, should also be brought into heat to start; see also that a sufficient quantity of fresh dung and leaves are getting ready for a bed for striking these cuttings. Have some composts under cover ready for the earliest sowing of annuals next month: in the out-door department attend to neatness in the grass and the borders along the principal walks; trench up all vacant beds, adding some nice decayed leaf mould where necessary; thin out shrubberies, and, weather permitting, commence digging the same, keeping in mind, however, that established shrubberies will be best undug, and, if weeds appear, well hoed. If the hyacinths in beds are pushing through, it is a good plan to cover the beds with dry rotten leaves, or a mixture of dry earth, ashes, and a little lime, as the leaves, though well rotten, will present a rough surface in which slugs will hide during the day, and come out to forage at night. Bear in mind, that after this month every week will bring an increase of necessary operations; it is well, therefore, to be in advance.

FEBRUARY.

Preparations for summer display must have constant attention. Sow some of the most showy hardy annuals in pots, and place them in a frame on gentle bottom heat; these will flower very early. A few may also be sown on a warm border, to transplant into the flower borders when they are dug up next month; dress the beds or patches of annuals which have been standing through the winter with soot and ashes to keep away snail; make up a good dung-bed early in the month, and commence striking the cuttings of bedding plants as soon as they are ready. When the first-potted bedding plants are well rooted, remove them to a cooler temperature, and supply their places with freshly-potted ones from the stores; bring forward the dry roots of choice Dahlias into heat, to furnish cuttings. The tall varieties of Lobelias should be put into heat, and when started into growth, part and pot them singly into four-inch pots, and harden off when well rooted; shift Carnations and Picotees into their blooming pots at the end of the month; protect choice Tulips and Hyacinths; fumigate Auriculas and top-dress them; let them have plenty of air and protection from frost and damp; commence the pruning of hardy Roses, also of climbing Roses on walls and trellises; where crowded, remove exhausted wood, and lay in young stuff. Dress over Scillas and choice Crocus with soot and ashes; also lay traps for mice, which are very destructive to crocus roots. Sow some pots or pans of German tenweek Stocks for early flowering, also a pan of Delphinum Chinense and

Formosum to flower late in the autumn. Commence digging up the borders in the rougher parts of the mixed flower garden; and where the background is formed of shrubs, let them be thinned out, rearranged, and blanks filled up as may be found necessary; some nice rotten leaf mould pricked in amongst the choicer sorts of shrubs will be very beneficial.

MARCH.

All the autumn stores of bedding plants must now be potted off without delay, and the stock continually increased by spring-struck cuttings. Have some turf-pits in readiness for pricking out, at three inches apart, all the spring-struck Verbenas. These pits must have a moveable waterproof covering; glass is best, but wooden shutters will do. Nothing is better than calico strained tight, but in very frosty nights some more covering of litter or branches will be necessary. See that hardy annuals sown in pots last month are getting hardened off for planting out. Sow Sweet Peas in pots in a gentle heat, to be hardened off quickly and planted out for early flowering; sow the same in the open border for succession; also sow some hardy annuals in the open ground, and protect the tenderest by placing a pot over them, which should be lifted on one side, or taken off on fine days. This is a good plan when a fine regular bed is wanted, or to form patches at regular distances. Prick out German ten-week Stocks, and sow more seed. A general sowing of hardy annuals may be made at the end of the month if the borders are ready. Sow also lawn grasses in showery weather. Plant out seeding Pansies; top-dress Pinks and Carnations; stir the soil amongst Tulip, Hyacinth, and Ranunculus beds, and protect them from snails. When digging the borders of herbaceous plants, reduce the size of all overgrown specimens, and fill up vacancies from the reserve garden. Finish pruning all Roses, manure them well, and replace rotten stakes. Keep grass and gravel well swept and rolled. Plant out bulbs. of the beautiful varieties of Gladiolus. Throw up a dung bed the last week, for tender annuals early next month.

APRIL.

Let the principal sowing of hardy annuals be made immediately, if it were not done last month. The manure bed recommended last month will now be ready, and may at once be filled with pots or pans sown with tender annuals, such as French and African Marigolds, Spanish and Indian Pinks, German and French Asters, Zinnias, Nolana's, Tropaeola, Maurandyas, Lychospermums, and many others which will be found enumerated in catalogues, most of which will be required to be