AUSTRALIAN FLOWERS.
The cult of flowers has spread very rapidly in Australia, where perhaps it was once a little neglected. A reference made more than a year ago in this place to the difficulty of finding a guide to that splendid flora has brought a host of letters from Australian flower-lovers, especially those who have sought to remedy the deficiency of guide books. This week have been sent me four little popular handbooks with coloured and other illustrations, two of the birds, two of the flowers of Australia. They are peculiarly pleasing, very cheap, are written especially for motorists and can be pro- cured at the head office of the Shell Company in each State, with a plea that "when discovered in their sacred haunts, the flowers may be left untouched to delight the heart of all who might pass by." Does this mean that the rage for mere speed among motorists is giving place to a truer aesthetic philosophy ? :
" Suppose that while the motor pant You miss the nightingale!"
is not so certain a supposition as it once was.
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