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Whilst looking out, tlie mate came forward and ordered me to 

 pass another gasket or fastening round the jilj, that it might not blow 

 adrift when we hove to, that is, made the ship face the gale instead 

 of running from it, which had now become absolutely necessary. In 

 doing this my very nose came in contact with the pine-tree top, now 

 des])oiled of all its greenness, and miserably dead and brown, as it 

 well might be after exposure to such weather and the salt sea-spray. 

 Could it have spoken, how would it have upbraided me for having 

 transferred it to such a situation ! 



But it spoke not, nor I either ; I made the sail secure, and left 

 the jib-boom ; and not a minute too soon, for I was scarcely in the 

 fore stay-sail netting, before round came the ship into the trough of 

 the sea, having broached-to. Quick as thought the helm was put 

 down, the braces were let go, forward went the yards, and all hands 

 jumped into the rigging, and watched with no little anxiety the 

 event. In rounding broadside-to, up went her stern, and in an in- 

 stant afterwards her bowsprit was buried in the sea ; but I was in 

 a place of comparative safety, if the bowsprit did not give way ; for 

 my arms were well locked into the netting, and, to use a seaman's 

 phrase, I held on in the water " like grim death to an apple-tree.'' 

 Up she lifted again, bang above my head went the fore stay-sail 

 clean out of the bolt-rope, and is tlying yet for all I know. That 

 helped her round, and in another minute she was riding like a duck 

 on the water, and gracefully bowing and presenting her broad bows 

 to the seas as if perfectly indifferent to all their raging. I soon 

 made my way on board, and helping at the down-haul of the remains 

 of the fore stay-sail, rejoiced to see the pine-top had escaped as well 

 as myself. 



THE FRUITIST. 



MORELLO AXD DUKE CHERRIES CULTIVATED AS DWARF 

 BUSHES. 



My attention has within these two days (June 21) been drawn to a 

 row of Morello Cherries, which are planted 4 feet apart, are 3 years 

 old, and covered with fruit; indeed they have more fruit than leaves. 

 Now as it is usual to cultivate this valuable Cherry on walls with a 

 north or north-east aspect — and those who have not had such appen- 

 dages to their gardens have been obliged to forego the pleasure and 

 protit which their culture gives — I am induced to offer a few hints for 

 that purpose, the result of experience. 



In the first place, it is quite necessary the trees should be grafted 

 or budded on the Alahaleb stock {Cerasus JMahaleb), for this stock 

 seems to suit the Morello Cherry well, and gives it a very fertile 

 habit ; it also seems to bear summer pinching better when on this 

 stock than when grafted on the usual stock employed, the common 

 black Cherry ; and although it grows freely, it seems to be formed 

 into a bush with greater facility. 



Trees of one or two years' growth may be planted any time from 



