truth is, that it is a perennial; its roots are tuberous, similar to those of the dahlia, and, like that, may be may be preserved through the winter by the same means: when, if planted out in April, they soon make their appearance above ground, and produce, for the second time, an early and abundant crop." Lindley's Guide to the Kitchen Garden. We confess that the above statement is new to us. The root of the scarlet-runner is certainly similar to similar to those roots which are preserved in the house during the winter. Many plants are considered by us as annuals, when the reason why they die at the beginning of winter is, that they cannot stand our frosts. If the roots were taken up at the approach of winter, and preserved, and then put into the ground again at the beginning of summer, they would live, and be much stronger than new plants raised from seed. This is understood now, and practised in the case of the marvel of Peru, and other flowers which were long considered as annuals. It is upon this principle that potatoes are preserved, as well as dahlias, and several sorts of flowers. F To the Editor of the Cottager's Monthly Visitor. ས. it I HAVE transcribed two hymns, which you will perhaps think adapted to your useful and excellent miscellany. They are taken from a small volume of " Psalms and Hymns for public and private use, by the Rev. W. H. Bathurst," which has been lately published, but is not, I believe, much known. I am, Sir, your humble servant, MORNING HYMN. O LORD, with morning's earliest light -J. B. E. To thee I owe a peaceful mind; Now, let thy grace direct my way, Guard me this day from every ill, The end for which I have been made. Light up, O Lord, within my breast Ere long a brighter day shall rise, EVENING HYMN. ALMIGHTY FATHER, by whose care, To thee my spirit I commend, Now let me commune with my heart, Blest with thy presence, let me find repose. Let needful rest my powers renew, Address to the Parents of Children, &c. Be with me to my latest breath, 471 ADDRESS TO THE PARENTS OF CHILDREN CHRISTIAN PARENTS, (for by that name we hope you may be addressed, and God grant that you may be such in spirit also.)-In this short address you will be told for what purposes these schools were set on foot by some of your kind neighbours, and you will also be reminded of some things which you must do, in order that your children may receive that good from these schools which they are intended to afford. You are commanded in the Scriptures, that is to say, you are commanded by God himself, to "bring up your children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord," and, for not doing so, you will be answerable at the great day of judgment. These schools are opened to assist you in doing this your bounden duty. They will help you to lead your children forward in the way they should go, that, as they grow up, they may not depart from it. This way is the good and happy way which leadeth unto heaven, through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who has graciously commanded us to bring unto him little children, and to forbid them not. In these schools your children are brought, in their earliest years, to the knowledge of God, trained up in the fear and love of him, and in the faith of his Son Jesus Christ; and every endeavour is used to make them, as He was, dutiful and obedient to their parents, just and honest, kind and gentle towards every body, and mindful of their duty to God. They are also taught the beginning of that knowledge, which must be useful to them in whatever situation of life they may hereafter be placed. Such are the important objects of these schools; but, Christian Parents, it depends in a great measure upon yourselves, whether or not your children shall profit by them as we desire that they should. You must on no account keep your children away from school, except when they are ill: but send them regularly, and at the appointed time, clean washed and combed. If this be not done, your children will not be suffered to remain in the school. But there is a matter to which you will have to attend, of far greater consequence than washing and combing, or even feeding and clothing your little ones; and the attending to it is a part of the service which you owe to God and Christ, and which, if you neglect, you will be great sinners indeed! What we mean is this: Never set your children a bad example; for they will be almost sure to copy it; and then, what good will our teaching do? If you are guilty of drunkenness, of unchastity, of cheating and dishonesty, of profane swearing, of lying, of filthy conversation, of sabbathbreaking, and such grievous sins, what can you expect but that your children should grow up in the same evil courses? And if, through your bad example, they become wicked, are ruined in this world, and, what is a still more awful thing, doomed to everlasting punishment in the next, what a dreadful thought it will be to you hereafter that your poor children have perished through your means! Consider that, by setting your children an evil example, you are likely not only to ruin those whose happiness you are bound, and surely must wish to promote, but you will most certainly provoke God's terrible wrath against yourselves, and bring upon your own heads a more fearful condemnation. Always set your children a good example. Walk before them in the faithful discharge of every duty towards God and towards men. Never swear profanely, nor use God's holy name lightly and irreverently; never tell lies; never give way to idle, indecent, and slanderous talk, nor to intemperance of any kind. Keep Address to the Parents of Children, &c. 473 holy the sabbath-day, and be constant and devout attendants at the Lord's house; be diligent in your worldly callings, just and honest in all your dealings, pure and charitable in your conversation, temperate and chaste in thought, word, and deed. Walk before your children in a godly, righteous, and sober life, and, by the help of God's grace, show them the way to heaven. Always hear your children offer up their prayers every night and morning; at night when they retire to rest, that they may have the protection of their heavenly Father during the hours of darkness, and in the morning when they rise, having been brought in safety by him to the beginning of another day, that they may be defended, by the help of his grace, against the temptations of this sinful world. Take care also that they offer up their prayers, not in a hurried and careless, but in a serious and devout manner. When your children do what is wrong, do not correct them violently and harshly, but remember those words of St. Paul, "Parents, provoke not your children to wrath ;" and, when they require correction, let it be done, not in a fit of angry passion, but in the spirit of meekness; neither be indulgent to their faults, for by such treatment your children will be made obstinate, peevish, ill-tempered, and untractable; "a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame." When your children are taken away from these schools at the age of six years, do not delay applying to have them received into the schools which have been opened by charitable Christians for older children; that so the good which they have learned in their infancy may be kept alive, and advance with their increasing years'; after the example of their blessed Redeemer, who, as he grew in stature, increased in wisdom, and in favour with God and man." These things, Christian Parents, are addressed to you with a real desire to promote the good of your children, who are surely most dear to you, and whose good both in time and eternity, must be the wish of |