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other carpet remains tliere witli its eternal 

 red flowers, whicli become more ugly every 

 day, and with its badly-mended rents. 

 How rich then I am !" 



" THE ElCn WOODMAN. 



" For some short time past, a circum- 

 fefanee that appeared strange has attracted 

 my attention. I dare say you remem- 

 ber my speaking to you of a house covered 

 with thatch, of the thatch covered with 

 moss, of the ridge of the roof crowned 

 with iris, which was to be seen from a cer- 

 tain point in my garden. Well, for seve- 

 ral days I perceived the house was shut 

 up, and T asked my servant, ' Does not 

 the woodman live up yonder now ?' ' No, 

 sir ; he has been gone nearly two months. 

 He is become rich ; he has inherited a 

 property of 600 livres a-ycar ; and he is 

 gone to live in town.' He is become rich ! 



That is to say, that with his 600 livres a- 

 year he is gone to live in a little apartment 

 in the city, without air and without sun, 

 where he can neither see the heavens, nor 

 the trees, nor the verdure, where he wiU 

 breathe unwholesome air, where his pros- 

 pect will be confined to a paper of a dirty yel- 

 low, embellished with chocolate arabesques. 



He is become rich ! 



" He is become rich ! that is to Bay, 

 he is not allowed to keep his dog, which 

 he has had so long, because it annoyed the 

 other lodgers of the house. He lodges in 

 a sort of square box ; he has people on the 

 right-hand and on the left, above him and 

 below him. He has left his beautiful 

 cottage and his beautiful trees, and liis 

 sun, and his grass carpet so green, and the 

 song-birds, and the odour of the oaks. 



He is become rich ! He is become 



rich ! Poor man !" 



INAECHING THE PASSION-FLO WEE. 



BY 11. HOWLETT, AVHITAVELL. 



To those persons possessing but a limited 

 extent of house-room, any way or means 

 by which they may increase the variety of 

 their flowers will, doubtless, be received 

 with satisfaction ; and, perhaps, especially 

 so witli respect to that class of flowers 

 which, though so generally admired, are 

 often looked upon as only adapted to 

 places of very large extent. 



The passion-flowers are well known to 

 be plants that will not reward the culti- 

 vator with their delightful flowers unless 

 they have a good extent of room to ramble 

 in, and the unwillingness to give up the 

 ■whole of the I'oof or back of a house to 

 one thing, where the cultivator desires to 

 see a variety, leads, perhaps, to the exclu- 

 sion of tliis lovely tribe altogether, for the 

 sake of things of humbler growth. But my 

 object is to explain, in as simple a manner 

 as I can, how the above objection may be 

 removed, and how those who wish to try 

 their hand at that bewitching operation, 

 viz.. Inarching, may find a wilhng subject, 

 for of all plants I have operated upon I 

 never found one take more readily : also 

 how to obtain on the same space that will 

 accommodate one single plant, conse- 

 quently, only one variety in a general way, 

 as many varieties as may be desired, or 

 can be procured. And to that end I believe 

 a narrative of how I have just succeeded 

 in estabUshing eight varieties \ipon one 

 old plant of I'assijlora edulis, and yet left 



I enough of the original for a supply of 

 I fruit, will be the best way of treating tho 

 subject. 



Having a large plant of P. edulis, 

 whi(!h produced more fruit than was re- 

 quired for use, I thought it desirable to 

 appropriate part of the space it occupied 

 to ornamental varieties. Consequently, 

 early in June, I got from my friends cut- 

 tings of the current season's growth of 

 P. elata, P. elata superla, P. kermeshia, P. 

 princeps, and other varieties, as well as two 

 varieties of JacJcsonti. Most of the cut- 

 tings were about two feet long, of the cur- 

 rent summer's growth. Some were points 

 from shoots that had been stopped, and 

 wliich had made about six or eight inches 

 of second growth ; in the latter case I ope- 

 rated upon the part of the shoot below 

 the second growth, but think it of little 

 importance what part of the shoot is used, 

 so long as it has not been exhausted by 

 flowering. Having got my cuttings home, 

 I wetted a bass-mat, and folded the cut- 

 tings in it for the space of a day and night, 

 which kept them perfectly fresh and free 

 from damage, I then shortened back the 

 shoots of the old plant, some of which 

 were larger than my finger, to within two 

 or three feet of the main stem, reserving 

 the leaves and short branches on the part 

 left to draw up the sap ; and not having 

 any grafting-wax at liand, I spread bees- 

 was upon narrow tape for bandages. 



