FLOWERS vs. HEALTH.
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 The passionate lover of flowers, like ev- cry other passionate lover, is disposed to overlook all there may be of evil in his fa- vorile, and take cognixance' only of the good. . .t "'. 7.'--.o -.r ,aaag.,

 There is kind of floating impression abroad, little known, and less needed, that plants, in a close sitting room, are injurious to health. The loose iradilionary way by which the opinion is prepaga,ed, is very far from Pnlisting that regard that scien- titic denoucmcnt Of the facts would demand :; nor is it surprising that persons long habitu- ated to the use of flowers. both in their sit- ting and sleeping apartments, should claim the absence of any immediate ill effects, as sufficient proof against the common rumor. A few practical hints on this subject, will not, perhaps, be afniss.n2 ti9o4s3os yeG1

 The purest and healthiest form of atmos- pheric air, may be estimated at 20 per cent of Oxygen with 80 per cent of Nitrogen. Generally, however, there is either a redun- dancy of the one or the other, or less pro portion of both, with small compliment tary per cen,age of Aqueous Vapor, Car bonic Acid Gas, AmmCnia, etc. The of. fee of respiration, by combining the Oxy- gen 0f the air, with the Carbon found in the blood, (as is supposed, renders tho at- D'osphere impure, by throwing out at eve " expiration. from eight to nine, and even ten per cent of Carbonic Acid. This is the deadly gas, so well Known, constituting n large part of the effluvia from burning charcoal, and anthracite. and as sometimes seated in the bottom of wells. Thus the whole atmosphere would become incapable disappearing life, were it not from the beau- tiful arrangement 0f Providence, in render ing Carbon essential to vegetable life. and tn giving tt power to take this element from the Carbonic Acid expired faeua tue lungs; thus setting free the Oxygen to secombine with the Nitrogen fnr the support ofanimal life. Plants are then important instruments of vitality ;" the light: but ;n the dark, the economy of nature is different. Yer. dure, deprived of the solar influence, in- stead of dccomposing the Carbonic Acid, eUotVes tt in volume, nearly equal to the Oxygen emitted in tie day. ,3g .a9 d

 .,. l'kants, thea, in the sunligxs. arg the. best co,vecsives cj tAe atmosphere inthe night' eSPecs1Hy ;s :. "!s'S ssssa,s-s @2snff1seHS, they add asuch to ifs imppyity. J .,. .,. '. fl At the same lime it must bc remember ed, that the effects are not immediate, and indeed they may not be fer series of years, percep.ible; and tho failing appetite, the dizziness, the waning lustre of the eye, may be attributed, and justly, to some ouerbal- apcing svil--some gross negligence of dress, while the verdant and iris hucs of the flow CT, are the innocent ,executioners of no small portion oe their patrons strength. In- deed, all instruments Ofattack upon ihe or- gans of respiration are the most ins;diOus foes ofhealth they are the < worms in the bud"-the more carefully should they be guarded ag,sinst. .- NOvsoich Courier. ,,