FLOWERS FOR FRIEDENHEIM.
pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Twice within nine years, in 1893 and 1898, you most kindly allowed me to plead for flowers for "Friedenheim," the Home for the Dying. Through the generosity of your readers funds were raised on each occasion; which with care have supplied plants and ferns for the wards from time to time, but now I have had to tell Miss Davidson, the foundress and lady-superintendent, that the funds are nearly exhausted, and that I can only send her one more supply. She writes :- " We have so much rejoiced in these flowers, I feel it will be a great loss to be without them." When I was last at Frieden- heim a dying woman said to me in her faint voice, "I am from the country, and London has always been strange to me, but the flowers seem like old friends, they comfort me more than anything else." Will those who have smoothed the path for beloved feet through the Valley of the Shadow of Death contribute towards " Flowers for Friedenheim " ? I try to choose the hardiest plants and ferns, but the necessary disinfectants used to protect the health of the nurses soon wither flowers and foliage, and they need con- stant renewing. I do plead most earnestly for the means of giving this last earthly gleam of pleasure to the sufferers who are admitted to Friedenheim only because they have no hope of recovery and no home in which to die. Contributions of plants or cut flowers may be sent direct to Miss Davidson, Friedenheim Hospital, Upper Avenue Road, N.W. Gifts of money with which to buy plants from time to time may be addressed to Lady Arbuthnot, Newtown House, Newbury. The money will be carefully acknowledged and husbanded.—
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